OpenAI · Efficient
GPT 5.6 Luna Pro
GPT-5.6 Luna with Pro reasoning mode. Pro mode performs more model work for difficult tasks; reasoning effort remains independently configurable and defaults to medium.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- PDF input
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- none · low · medium · high · xhigh · max
- Discovery tier
- Efficient
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.20
- Output
- $1.20
- Cache read
- $0.02
- Cache write
- $0.25
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1.1M
- Max output
- 128K
- Average output (7 days)
- 1.5K tokens
- Longer than 87% of 465 models
Side by side
GPT 5.6 Luna Pro compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| GPT 5.6 Luna ProOpenAIThis model | GPT 6 LunaOpenAIRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Discovery tier | Efficient | Efficient |
| Added | Jul 9, 2026 | Sep 22, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1.05M | 1.05M |
| Max output | 128K | 128K |
| Average output | 1.5K tokens | 120 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.20 | $0.10Best |
| Output | $1.20 | $0.50Best |
| Cache read | $0.02 | $0.01Best |
| Cache write | $0.25 | $0.13Best |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 949.8 tok/sBest | 513.5 tok/s |
| Time to first token | 9.6 s | 7.5 sBest |
| Request success (24h) | 99.8% | 99.9%Best |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 37.3Best | 29.9 |
| Coding Index | 71.4 | — |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| PDF input | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | none, low, medium, high, xhigh, max | none, low, medium, high, xhigh, max |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- GPT 5.6 Luna Pro
- GPT 6 Luna
Intelligence Index
- GPT 5.6 Luna Pro37.3
- GPT 6 Luna29.9
GPT 5.6 Luna Pro tested at max reasoning effort
GPT 5.6 Luna Pro: Better than 81% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- GPT 5.6 Luna Pro: 71.4
- GPT 6 Luna: —
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- GPT 5.6 Luna Pro: 50.2%Top
- GPT 6 Luna: 40.5%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- GPT 5.6 Luna Pro: 18.6%Top
- GPT 6 Luna: 10.2%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- GPT 5.6 Luna Pro: 1,339 EloTop
- GPT 6 Luna: 1,097 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- GPT 5.6 Luna Pro: 1,460 EloTop
- GPT 6 Luna: 1,263 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- GPT 5.6 Luna Pro: 24.0%Top
- GPT 6 Luna: 13.8%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- GPT 5.6 Luna Pro: 83.7%Top
- GPT 6 Luna: 78.3%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- GPT 5.6 Luna Pro: 20.0%Top
- GPT 6 Luna: 18.3%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- GPT 5.6 Luna Pro: 39.5%Top
- GPT 6 Luna: 28.3%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- GPT 5.6 Luna Pro: 91.1%
- GPT 6 Luna: —
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- GPT 5.6 Luna Pro: 11.6%Top
- GPT 6 Luna: 2.5%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- GPT 5.6 Luna Pro: 53.6%Top
- GPT 6 Luna: 50.9%
Legacy evaluations
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- GPT 5.6 Luna Pro: 83.7%Top
- GPT 6 Luna: 78.3%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. GPT 5.6 Luna Pro was tested at max reasoning effort; compare scores measured at the same effort.Artificial Analysis
- GPT 5.6 Luna Pro
- GPT 6 Luna
| Leaderboard | GPT 5.6 Luna Pro | GPT 6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-3 (Default harness) | Not in top 20 | #18 · 0.2% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on ARC Prize leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.ARC Prize
- GPT 5.6 Luna Pro
- GPT 6 Luna
| Leaderboard | GPT 5.6 Luna Pro | GPT 6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| SVG | Not in top 20 | #16 · 1250 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Design Arena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Design Arena
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 949.8 tok/s
- Faster than 99% of 247 models
- Time to first token
- 9.6 s
- Quicker than 10% of 247 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 80.7%
- About $0.0548 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 99.8%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "openai/gpt-5.6-luna-pro",
"reasoning_effort": "medium",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="openai/gpt-5.6-luna-pro",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)OpenAI
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