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GPT-6 Luna

OpenAIReleased 22 Sep 2026ClosedFlagship
166155–178Index score#27 of 229 models
4/ 8Core tests taken4 of 6 areas · plus 2 anchor tests
−33Versus the frontier at releasebest then: Claude Opus 5.5
$0.10/ $0.50Price per million tokensinput / output, list price
1.05MContext windowtokens it reads at once

Where it sitson the frontier

Claude Opus 4.6 reached this score 8 months earlier.

Test resultsby area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledgeevidence
GPQA Diamond
90%
Humanity's Last Exam
no result
Mathsevidence
FrontierMath T1-3
79%
Codingno evidence yet
SWE-bench Verified
no result
Terminal-Bench
no result
Agentsevidence
APEX-Agents
44%
Novel problemsevidence
ARC-AGI-2
59%
Long tasksno evidence yet
METR time horizon
no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

What others sayrank on each leaderboard

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

Best attop three among current models

Not in the top three among current models on any category we track.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

Where to use itprices checked 1 Oct 2026

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Facts and sources

Released22 Sep 2026
Announcementopenai.com ↗
Release entryGPT-6 Sol + GPT-6 Luna
Scored asGPT-6 Luna
Artificial Analysis index38 · max
Output speed125 tokens/s
Hugging Faceclosed weights

OpenAI releasesaround this one