The balanced tier of OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series, trading a small amount of peak quality for markedly lower latency and cost. Retains strong reasoning, coding, and agentic tool use with configurable reasoning effort, making it a default choice for production workloads that need frontier capability at scale.
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| Provider | Pricing (per 1M) | Rate Limits | Regions | Health | Latency |
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In: $3.00Out: $12.00 | 800 RPM / 800K TPM | us-east-1eu-west-1 | Healthy | 0ms |
Use this model via OpenAI with an OpenAI-compatible SDK.
import OpenAI from "openai";
const client = new OpenAI({
baseURL: "https://api.openai.com/v1",
apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY,
});
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: "gpt-5.6-terra",
messages: [
{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }
],
});
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);Using OpenAI API • OpenAI-compatible SDK