The price of intelligence falls while the price of control rises

GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra, Gemini Robotics ER 2 and ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, and The Deploy Log for this week. Every price and claim read off the publisher's own page, with a call on each.

OpenAI

GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra

DEPLOYif you run high-volume API workloads

WHAT SHIPPEDGPT-5.6 Luna now costs 80% less and GPT-5.6 Terra 20% less, with API pricing at $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens for Luna, and $2 per million input tokens and $12 per million output tokens for Terra starting July 30.

THE CATCHLuna delivers performance comparable to models that were frontier-class a year ago at roughly 6 cents on the dollar per task, and on Agents' Last Exam it outperforms Fable 5 at an estimated cost per task nearly 99% lower.

IF YOU RUNlarge-scale document analysis, customer-interaction classification, or routine implementation at scale

SOURCEOpenAI, Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6

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