GPT-5.6 Luna API Pricing
OpenAI · Budget · Proprietary · released 2026-07. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-28.
GPT-5.6 Luna has held the same list price since 2026-08-17 and is the 105th cheapest of 142 Budget models. None of its 3 hosts undercuts the price quoted here. It is rated a stable release but does not meet all four criteria of the FinOps Friendly badge.
- Input: $0.20 per 1M tokens
- Output: $1.20 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): $0.10 / $0.60
- Prompt-cache read: $0.02
- Context window: 1M
- Arena ELO: 1454 (as of 2026-09-25)
- Available on: Direct API, AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, OpenRouter (curated by hand, verify with the provider)
- AWS Bedrock regions: ap-northeast-1, ap-southeast-1, eu-central-1, eu-west-1, us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-2
GPT-5.6 Luna market position
On blended price ($0.900 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 26% of Budget models: 105th cheapest of 142, tied with one other. Across every category it is cheaper than 63% of priced text models in the catalogue: 105th cheapest of 281, tied with one other. Its Arena ELO of 1454 ranks 31st of the 68 models that carry one, above 55% of them.
GPT-5.6 Luna licence, size and capabilities
GPT-5.6 Luna is recorded here as proprietary: access is through an API, priced by the token. Its parameter count is not published. Listed capabilities: Text, Vision, Reasoning, Code, Agents. Filling its 1M context window once costs $0.20 in input tokens at list price.
Monthly cost at 100K requests, by business use case
From the after-discounts figure (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates), which assumes you implement both, to the list price. One figure means no discount is published.
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Monthly (after discounts – list) |
|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $74 – $90 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $111 – $136 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $164 – $344 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $257 – $266 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $273 – $300 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $47 – $102 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $60 – $124 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $404 – $480 |
GPT-5.6 Luna pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 3 different hosts. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-28 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
The price we publish is already the cheapest of the 3 hosts: OpenAI at $0.20 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens. The dearest, Amazon Bedrock, charges 1.1x the cheapest.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAI (the price shown above) | $0.20 | $1.20 |
| Azure (the price shown above) | $0.20 | $1.20 |
| Amazon Bedrock | $0.22 | $1.32 |
GPT-5.6 Luna price history
GPT-5.6 Luna has been in our daily price archive since 2026-08-15. Its price series starts on 2026-08-17 at $0.20 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens, because the earlier snapshots carried a data error that was corrected afterwards. No list price change since 2026-08-17. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
Alternatives to GPT-5.6 Luna
- Next cheaper Budget model: Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking (Alibaba) at $0.885 blended, 2% less.
- Next more expensive: LongCat 2.0 (meituan) at $0.930 blended, 3% more.
The nearest Budget models on Arena ELO, each with its blended price and score difference against GPT-5.6 Luna.
- Qwen3.7 Plus (Alibaba) — $0.32 in / $1.28 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1456: 10% more expensive, 2 ELO points higher
- GLM 5 (Zhipu) — $0.60 in / $1.92 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1457: 69% more expensive, 3 ELO points higher
- DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 (DeepSeek) — $0.95 in / $1.91 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1458: 80% more expensive, 4 ELO points higher
- MiniMax M3 (MiniMax) — $0.30 in / $1.20 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1440: 3% more expensive, 14 ELO points lower
- Cheapest within 15 Arena points: GPT-5.6 Luna is itself the cheapest of the 16 models scoring within 15 points of its ELO.
- Highest Arena ELO within 20% of this price: Qwen3.7 Plus (Alibaba), 10% more expensive, 2 ELO points higher, out of 5 models in that price band.
GPT-5.6 Luna head to head
Common questions about GPT-5.6 Luna pricing
- How much does GPT-5.6 Luna cost?
- GPT-5.6 Luna costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does GPT-5.6 Luna offer batch or cached pricing?
- Yes. Batch API pricing is $0.10/M input and $0.60/M output. Prompt-cache reads cost $0.02/M.
- What would GPT-5.6 Luna cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, GPT-5.6 Luna costs about $90 at list prices.
- Has the price of GPT-5.6 Luna changed?
- GPT-5.6 Luna has been in our daily price archive since 2026-08-15. Its price series starts on 2026-08-17 at $0.20 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens, because the earlier snapshots carried a data error that was corrected afterwards. No list price change since 2026-08-17. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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