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title: "OpenAI has introduced GPT-6.1 Terra, a midrange model positioned for detailed visual reasoning"
description: "OpenAI has introduced GPT-6.1 Terra, a midrange model positioned for detailed visual reasoning, precise computer use, and technical communication."
retrieval_nugget: "OpenAI has introduced GPT-6.1 Terra, a midrange model positioned for detailed visual reasoning, precise computer use, and technical communication."
published_at: "2026-10-27"
updated_at: "2026-10-27"
record_date: "2026-10-27"
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entities: ["OpenAI","GPT-6.1 Terra","GPT-5.6 Terra","GPT-6.1 Sol","GPT-6 Luna","Simon Willison"]
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what_changed: "Frames the launch as a midrange choice, emphasizing its strengths in visual reasoning, computer use and communication, and when those capabilities may be useful."
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# OpenAI has introduced GPT-6.1 Terra, a midrange model positioned for detailed visual reasoning

## Retrieval answer

OpenAI has introduced GPT-6.1 Terra, a midrange model positioned for detailed visual reasoning, precise computer use, and technical communication.

OpenAI has introduced GPT-6.1 Terra, a midrange model positioned for detailed visual reasoning, precise computer use, and technical communication. Simon Willison's report quotes the launch description, which lists tasks including proposal drafting, interpretation of technical drawings, form filling, and video editing.

The reported API price is $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens. Willison describes that as almost half the price of GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-6.1 Sol, and about ten times the price of GPT-6 Luna. In a Hacker News comment quoted by Willison, OpenAI's Ted Sanders says Terra is faster for vision and computer-use work, stronger than Luna for those uses, and cheaper than Sol.

The source does not provide independent benchmark results, context-window details, availability terms, or reliability measurements for computer-control tasks. It also does not establish that Terra is the best choice outside the described vision, computer-use, and communication workloads.

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