gpt-5.6-terra
OpenAI/Proprietary/3 providers
GPT-5.6 Terra is OpenAI's balanced frontier model for everyday production workloads, delivering near flagship reasoning, coding, and agentic performance at roughly half the cost of the previous generation. It features a 1M+ token context window with support for text and image inputs, server side tool calling, and prompt caching.MoreLess
Which id to call
gpt-5.6-terraRequesty routes this id across every provider serving gpt-5.6-terra, picking on price and health and failing over automatically. The id stays valid when a provider changes underneath it.
From /1M input
$1.00
OpenAI Inc.
Context
1.1M
128K output
Best first token
1.33s
Microsoft Azure AI
Price spread
2.2x
10 endpoints
Capabilities 5/8
117/s↑ 44/s
Week of Sep 28, latest, median of 3 providers
Median tokens per second once generation starts, measured on traffic routed through Requesty through Oct 2. Hover a week to read it.moreless
Each provider line is that provider's own median across every model it serves, which is the grain published per provider, so a provider line can cover weeks this model was not called in yet. The exact per-provider figures for this model are ranked below.
10 endpoints / 9 regions
Providers serving gpt-5.6-terra
Provider prices, per 1M tokens. Pay as you go adds 5%, or 0% on your own keys.moreless
The two panes rank gpt-5.6-terra as measured on Requesty traffic: by the provider that served it, and by the region the request came from, where the share is how much of that region's traffic this model carries. Whole-window figures, because that is the grain Requesty publishes per provider and per region.
By provider
Median tokens per second once generation starts. Bar length is the value, so the longest bar wins.moreless
Whole-window figures as published, not an average of weekly points.
By traffic region
Median tokens per second once generation starts. Bar length is the value, so the longest bar wins.moreless
Whole-window figures as published, not an average of weekly points.
| Rank | Cost 10wk | Privacy | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OpenAI Inc. | Global | 1.1M | $1.00 | $6.00 | $0.10 | 1.49s | 60.0 | 99.8% | no-train | |
| 2 | OpenAI Inc. | Global | 1.1M | $2.00 | $12.00 | $0.20 | 1.49s | 60.0 | 99.8% | no-train | |
| 3 |  Microsoft Azure AI | eastus2 | 1.1M | $2.00 | $12.00 | $0.20 | 1.33s | 58.0 | 99.5% | zdr | |
| 4 | Microsoft Azure AI | francecentral | 1.1M | $2.20 | $13.20 | $0.22 | 1.33s | 58.0 | 99.5% | zdr | |
| 5 | Microsoft Azure AI | germanywestcentral | 1.1M | $2.20 | $13.20 | $0.22 | 1.33s | 58.0 | 99.5% | zdr | |
| 6 | Microsoft Azure AI | swedencentral | 1.1M | $2.20 | $13.20 | $0.22 | 1.33s | 58.0 | 99.5% | zdr | |
| 7 | Microsoft Azure AI | westeurope | 1.1M | $2.20 | $13.20 | $0.22 | 1.33s | 58.0 | 99.5% | zdr | |
| 8 |  AWS Bedrock | us-east-1 | 1.1M | $2.20 | $13.20 | $0.22 | 2.11s | 65.0 | 99.7% | zdr | |
| 9 | AWS Bedrock | us-east-2 | 1.1M | $2.20 | $13.20 | $0.22 | 2.11s | 65.0 | 99.7% | zdr | |
| 10 | AWS Bedrock | us-west-2 | 1.1M | $2.20 | $13.20 | $0.22 | 2.11s | 65.0 | 99.7% | zdr |
A column is blank where no qualifying sample exists, and every row links to that provider's endpoint page.
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Which id to call
One base url, https://router.requesty.ai/v1, and one key for every id here.
gpt-5.6-terraRequesty routes this id across every provider serving gpt-5.6-terra, picking on price and health and failing over automatically. The id stays valid when a provider changes underneath it.
OpenAI compatible
Call it in three lines
Change the base url, use your Requesty key, set the model to any id on the left. Existing OpenAI SDK code needs no other edit.
123456789101112131415from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI( api_key="YOUR_REQUESTY_API_KEY", base_url="https://router.requesty.ai/v1", ) response = client.chat.completions.create( model="gpt-5.6-terra", messages=[ {"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in one paragraph."}, ], ) print(response.choices[0].message.content)
Artificial Analysis
Benchmark scores
Artificial Analysis Coding Index: a composite of coding evaluations including LiveCodeBench, SciCode and Terminal-Bench.
Graduate-level physics, chemistry & biology questions designed to resist Googling.
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: a composite of multiple evaluations measuring overall model capability.
Scores from artificialanalysis.ai. They measure the model, not the provider, so they are the same on every endpoint above.
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gpt-5.6-terra questions
Which providers serve gpt-5.6-terra?
gpt-5.6-terra is available from 3 providers through Requesty: OpenAI Inc., Microsoft Azure AI, AWS Bedrock. All endpoints share one OpenAI-compatible API and one key, and Requesty fails over between them automatically.
How much does gpt-5.6-terra cost?
Pricing starts at $1.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens on OpenAI Inc., the cheapest endpoint. Prices vary by provider and region; the table above shows every endpoint. Those are the upstream provider rates: pay as you go adds 5% on top, or 0% if you bring your own provider keys.
Is gpt-5.6-terra open weights?
No. gpt-5.6-terra is a proprietary model from OpenAI, served through OpenAI's own API and licensed cloud platforms.
What is the context window of gpt-5.6-terra?
gpt-5.6-terra supports up to 1.1M tokens of context, with up to 128K output tokens per response. Some providers expose a smaller window; check the per-endpoint context column above.
Which provider is fastest for gpt-5.6-terra?
In recent production traffic through Requesty, Microsoft Azure AI had the lowest median time to first token (1.33s) for gpt-5.6-terra. Latency shifts over time, so Requesty's latency-based routing picks the fastest healthy provider per request automatically.
How do I use gpt-5.6-terra with the OpenAI SDK?
Install the OpenAI SDK, set base_url to "https://router.requesty.ai/v1", set your API key to your Requesty key, and set the model to "gpt-5.6-terra" or any endpoint id from the table above. The quickstart section shows Python, JavaScript and cURL snippets.
Should I call gpt-5.6-terra by its managed id or a provider id?
Use the managed id, "gpt-5.6-terra". Requesty picks which of the 3 providers serves each request based on price and health, and fails over when one degrades, so the id keeps working while the routing changes underneath it. There is also an EU-only id, "gpt-5.6-terra@eu", which routes the same way but only through EU-hosted providers. Send a provider id like "openai/gpt-5.6-terra:flex" only when you need one specific deployment and want no failover.
Route gpt-5.6-terra through one endpoint
One key for 3 providers on this model and 600+ others. No markup on provider prices, automatic failover, caching built in.