# GPT-5 vs GPT-5.6 Terra

As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5 leads GPT-5.6 Terra in 0 of 7 shared categories.

GPT-5: $3.4375000000000004 per 1M blended tokens.

GPT-5.6 Terra: $4.5 per 1M blended tokens.

GPT-5: closed weights.

GPT-5.6 Terra: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Terra leads GPT-5 in General LLM at #44 against #95.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Terra leads GPT-5 in Reasoning at #41 against #103.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Terra leads GPT-5 in Science at #15 against #54.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Terra leads GPT-5 in Coding › Web dev at #44 against #72.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Terra leads GPT-5 in Long context at #54 against #142.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Terra leads GPT-5 in Factuality at #28 against #119.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Terra leads GPT-5 in Abstraction (ARC) at #4 against #34.

As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5 is a former state-of-the-art holder in General LLM (since Aug 27, 2025; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Terra is ranked #4 in Abstraction (ARC) (since Oct 15, 2026; sources ARC-AGI; methodology v1.0).