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GPT-6.1 Terra API Price and Benchmarks

Complete pricing, token costs, context window, and benchmark scores for developers.

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GPT-6.1 Terra Costs

The OpenAI API charges $1.00 per million standard input tokens for gpt-6.1-terra. Cached input tokens drop to $0.05 per million. Output tokens cost $5.00 per million.

Token TypePrice, USD per Million Tokens
Standard Input1.00
Cached Input0.05
Output5.00

Context Window Limits

The model supports roughly 1,050,000 tokens in its context window. You can request up to 128,000 output tokens per single response.

Terminal-Bench 4.0 Performance

On Terminal-Bench 4.0, the model solves 50.3% of tasks at max reasoning effort. The predecessor GPT-5.6 Terra managed only 21.5% on the same benchmark.

Error Rates

Internal tests show an error rate of 4.3% on difficult prompts at max reasoning effort. Running at low effort yields a 16.7% error rate. GPT-5.6 Terra registered a 53.6% error rate at low effort.

Exam Scores

On Agents' Last Exam at medium reasoning effort, GPT-6.1 Terra scores about 15 points higher than GPT-5.6 Terra. This score matches GPT-6 Astra.

Supported Modalities

The API accepts image, text, and file inputs while outputting text only. It supports tool calling through the Responses API. You can access it via standard API endpoints like Chat Completions, Responses, and v1/live/sessions, as well as through ChatGPT Work and Codex.

Methodology

Facts are compiled from the vendor's own announcement and documentation, linked below, at the time of writing; where the vendor hasn't published a number it is marked as such. GPUniq prices, when the model is already available here, come from our live catalog.

Sources

  1. 1.GPT-6.1 Terra Model | OpenAI API — OpenAI (accessed )
  2. 2.Introducing GPT-6.1 Terra | OpenAI — OpenAI (accessed )
  3. 3.GPT-6.1 Terra: Benchmarks, Pricing, and Access | DataCamp — DataCamp (accessed )

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