GoKawiilOpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra, cuts API pricing by half
OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Terra, a smaller model built for computer-use tasks like form-filling, video editing and reading technical drawings. The company says it runs over three times faster than GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol, while API pricing drops 50% to $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens. OpenAI reports Terra's error rate fell from 53.6% to 16.7% at low reasoning effort compared to GPT-5.6 Terra, and its coding score on Terminal-Bench 4.0 more than doubled to 50.3%.
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The aggressive price cut alongside performance gains suggests OpenAI is pushing to make everyday agentic tasks cheap enough for high-volume automation, potentially pressuring rivals offering similar lightweight models. Lower hallucination rates could make the model more viable for business workflows like form processing, though OpenAI itself still points users toward larger models for demanding coding work, implying Terra's gains are concentrated in routine tasks rather than complex reasoning.
- GPT-6.1 Terra costs 50% less than its predecessor at $1/$5 per million input/output tokens
- Error rates dropped sharply, from 53.6% to 16.7% at low reasoning effort versus GPT-5.6 Terra
- Available now to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Enterprise and Edu users in Work and Codex
Source: bleepingcomputer.com, 2026-10-26
Published there as: “OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra with 3x faster AI agents, 50% lower pricing”
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