OpenAI · Frontier
GPT 5.6 Terra Pro
GPT-5.6 Terra 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
- Frontier
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $2.00
- Output
- $12.00
- Cache read
- $0.20
- Cache write
- $2.50
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1.1M
- Max output
- 128K
- Average output (7 days)
- 831 tokens
- Longer than 65% of 465 models
Side by side
GPT 5.6 Terra Pro compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| GPT 5.6 Terra ProOpenAIThis model | MiniMax M3.1 FlashMiniMaxRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | MiniMax |
| Discovery tier | Frontier | Efficient |
| Added | Jul 9, 2026 | Oct 19, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1.05MBest | 1.05M |
| Max output | 128K | 524.29KBest |
| Average output | 831 tokens | 1.4K tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $2.00 | $0.15Best |
| Output | $12.00 | $0.60Best |
| Cache read | $0.20 | $0.015Best |
| Cache write | $2.50 | — |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | — | 140.4 tok/s |
| Time to first token | — | 6.7 s |
| Request success (24h) | — | 99.7% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 42.1 | 42.7Best |
| Coding Index | 76.7 | — |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | No |
| PDF input | Yes | No |
| Video input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | none, low, medium, high, xhigh, max | 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 Terra Pro
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash
Intelligence Index
- GPT 5.6 Terra Pro42.1
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash42.7
GPT 5.6 Terra Pro tested at max reasoning effort
GPT 5.6 Terra Pro: Better than 87% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- GPT 5.6 Terra Pro: 76.7
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: —
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- GPT 5.6 Terra Pro: 59.6%
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 72.5%Top
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- GPT 5.6 Terra Pro: 24.5%
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 38.1%Top
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- GPT 5.6 Terra Pro: 1,332 Elo
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 1,473 EloTop
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- GPT 5.6 Terra Pro: 1,452 Elo
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 1,458 EloTop
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- GPT 5.6 Terra Pro: 24.0%Top
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 20.8%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- GPT 5.6 Terra Pro: 83.0%Top
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 79.7%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- GPT 5.6 Terra Pro: 27.2%Top
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 16.7%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- GPT 5.6 Terra Pro: 42.9%
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 48.0%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- GPT 5.6 Terra Pro: 92.5%
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: —
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- GPT 5.6 Terra Pro: 71.2%
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: —
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- GPT 5.6 Terra Pro: 35.4%Top
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 25.8%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- GPT 5.6 Terra Pro: 55.0%Top
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 53.4%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- GPT 5.6 Terra Pro: 57.6%
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: —
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- GPT 5.6 Terra Pro: 86.3%
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: —
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- GPT 5.6 Terra Pro: 83.0%Top
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash: 79.7%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. GPT 5.6 Terra Pro was tested at max reasoning effort; compare scores measured at the same effort.Artificial Analysis
- GPT 5.6 Terra Pro
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash
| Leaderboard | GPT 5.6 Terra Pro | MiniMax M3.1 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Coding | #16 · 16.9% | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Use cases leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
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.
- Prompt cache hits
- 10.3%
- About $1.81 per 1M input tokens with caching
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.
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-terra-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-terra-pro",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)OpenAI
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