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OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)

GPT-5.6 Luna from OpenAI is designed to handle text, file, and image inputs with a context length of 1,050,000 tokens, supporting both reasoning and tool usage. It excels in coding tasks, achieving a perfect score in its benchmark suite. However, it lacks structured output support and does not offer open weights for customization. While GPT-5.6 Luna offers robust capabilities at a price point of $0.1 per million input tokens and $0.6 per million output tokens, making it cost-effective for projects requiring extensive text processing and reasoning, its current blended benchmark score of 88.2 across three independent benchmarks suggests that it may be more suited for applications where coding is the primary focus rather than general agentic AI tasks.

Quality Score
100/100
price + capability + benchmarks
Input Price
$0.10
per 1M tokens
Output Price
$0.60
per 1M tokens
Context Window
1,050,000
tokens

Benchmark results

Independent, published benchmarks. Blended score 88.2 across 3 benchmarks, last refreshed 2026-08-13. How scoring works →

BenchmarkMeasuresScore
AI Index broad capability composite 86.3
AI Index Coding software engineering tasks 100.0
AI Index Agentic multi-step tool-using tasks 77.4
Model ID
openai/gpt-5.6-luna:batch
Vendor
openai
Released
July 2026
Tokenizer
GPT
Input Modalities
file, image, text
Output Modalities
text
Max Output
128,000 tokens
Tool Calling
✓ supported
Structured Output
✓ supported
Reasoning Mode
✓ supported
Vision
✓ accepts images
Audio
no
Moderated
yes

What it costs in practice

Computed from the current $0.10/M input and $0.60/M output rates. Run your own numbers →

JobTokensCost
Summarize a 50-page report 30k in / 1.5k out under $0.01
Classify 1,000 customer emails 500k in / 50k out $0.08
A month of a busy support chatbot 5M in / 2M out $1.70

Strong choice for

Category rankings

Where OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch) places across the 39 categories it ranks in. How we rank →

#CategoryScore
#2 Bulk Data LabelingData · of 25 ranked 135
#2 Short-Form SummarizationWriting · of 25 ranked 132
#2 Email DraftingWriting · of 25 ranked 128
#2 Language LearningEducation · of 25 ranked 128
#2 Customer SupportBusiness · of 25 ranked 135
#2 Chat CompanionPersonal · of 25 ranked 132
#2 Trivia & General KnowledgePersonal · of 25 ranked 122
#2 Dataset AnnotationResearch · of 25 ranked 145
#3 JSON ExtractionData · of 25 ranked 149
#3 Image CaptioningVision · of 25 ranked 121
#4 Sales / Cold EmailBusiness · of 25 ranked 124
#4 Job Application DraftingBusiness · of 25 ranked 124
#4 Journaling HelperPersonal · of 25 ranked 124
#4 Recipe GenerationPersonal · of 25 ranked 124
#8 Code CompletionCode · of 25 ranked 133
#11 Resume WritingBusiness · of 25 ranked 118
#13 Social Media PostsWriting · of 25 ranked 119
#13 Voice Assistant BackendVoice · of 25 ranked 123
#14 Regex WritingCode · of 25 ranked 137
#14 Language TranslationWriting · of 25 ranked 137
#14 Tutoring for KidsPersonal · of 25 ranked 137
#15 SOP / Process DocsBusiness · of 25 ranked 138
#16 Meeting NotesBusiness · of 25 ranked 152
#18 Code DocumentationCode · of 25 ranked 143
#19 CSV / Spreadsheet CleanupData · of 25 ranked 154
#19 Function / Tool CallingAgents · of 25 ranked 154
#19 Self-Hosted / LocalCost · of 25 ranked 117
#22 Screenshot DebuggingVision · of 25 ranked 142
#22 Real-Time ChatLatency · of 25 ranked 117
#23 Marketing CopyWriting · of 25 ranked 131
#23 Standardized Test PrepEducation · of 25 ranked 131
#23 Diagram ExtractionVision · of 25 ranked 149
#24 Frontend Component DesignCode · of 25 ranked 146
#24 Chart & Graph ReadingVision · of 25 ranked 152
#24 Browser AutomationAgents · of 25 ranked 171
#24 Cheap Bulk InferenceCost · of 25 ranked 137
#25 SQL GenerationCode · of 25 ranked 172
#25 OCR / Document ParsingData · of 25 ranked 146
#25 Table Extraction from PDFsData · of 25 ranked 146

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Quick answers

How much does OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch) cost?
$0.10 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens.
What is OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch)'s context window?
1,050,000 tokens, roughly 1,575 pages of text in a single request.
Does OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch) support tool calling?
It supports tool calling, structured output, a reasoning mode.
Can OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Luna (batch) process images?
Yes, it accepts image input.