GPT-6 Luna is the fast, cost-efficient model in OpenAI's GPT-6 series, positioned below GPT-6 Sol. It is suited for high-volume and latency-sensitive workloads such as chat, classification, and lightweight agentic tasks, and at higher reasoning effort it can take on complex software engineering and computer-use tasks that previously called for a Sol-tier model. It shares the GPT-6 family's gains in factual reliability and its clearer, more concise communication style.
Providers
Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick: Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Floor (cheapest).
| $0.05 | $0.25 | $0.005 | -- | -- |
- Input $0.05 / Output $0.25-- tok/s-- uptime
Pricing
The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.
Weighted average
GPT-6 Luna (batch) — Price history
| $0.00 | $0.00 | 50.9% | 100.0% |
- Effective in $0.00 / Effective out $0.00Token share100.0%
Performance
Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).
Uptime
Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.
Not enough uptime data to display yet.
When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.
Benchmarks
Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.
| Source | Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Xhigh) Intelligence Index | 23.5 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Xhigh) HLE | 34.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Xhigh) AA-LCR | 80.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Xhigh) GDPval-AA | 43.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Xhigh) CritPt | 17.4% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Xhigh) SciCode | 51.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Xhigh) Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 8.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Xhigh) AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 38.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Xhigh) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate | 16.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Max) Intelligence Index | 27.9 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Max) HLE | 38.5% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Max) AA-LCR | 83.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Max) GDPval-AA | 47.2% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Max) CritPt | 19.4% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Max) SciCode | 54.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Max) Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 12.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Max) AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 39.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Max) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate | 20.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (High) Intelligence Index | 21.4 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (High) HLE | 32.9% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (High) AA-LCR | 79.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (High) GDPval-AA | 42.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (High) CritPt | 15.4% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (High) SciCode | 50.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (High) Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 4.5% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (High) AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 39.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (High) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate | 15.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Low) Intelligence Index | 9.7 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Low) HLE | 20.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Low) AA-LCR | 74.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Low) GDPval-AA | 27.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Low) CritPt | 2.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Low) SciCode | 46.9% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Low) Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 0.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Low) AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 36.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Low) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate | 15.2% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Medium) Intelligence Index | 18.5 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Medium) HLE | 28.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Medium) AA-LCR | 78.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Medium) GDPval-AA | 38.5% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Medium) CritPt | 10.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Medium) SciCode | 50.9% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Medium) Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 2.5% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Medium) AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 38.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Medium) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate | 14.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Non-reasoning) Intelligence Index | 9.4 |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Non-reasoning) HLE | 8.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Non-reasoning) AA-LCR | 39.7% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Non-reasoning) GDPval-AA | 27.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Non-reasoning) CritPt | 1.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Non-reasoning) SciCode | 43.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Non-reasoning) Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 1.5% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Non-reasoning) AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 30.1% |
| Artificial Analysis | GPT-6 Luna (Non-reasoning) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate | 20.0% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna BioMysteryBench | 61.5% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna ClaimBench | 99.2% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna Code Migration v1.1 | 46.7% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna CyberBench v1.1 | 76.3% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna EMB v1.1 | 70.0% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna Finance Agent v2.1 | 56.8% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna Vals Finance Index | 53.1% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna Financial Coaching Bench | 65.2% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna HLAB-Vals-1.1 | 4.2% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna Immigration | 62.5% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna IOI | 55.6% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna Vals Legal Index | 62.2% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna Legal Research Bench | 30.3% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna MedCode | 44.7% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna MedScribe | 83.7% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna MysteryMechanism | 19.4% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna ProgramBench | 0.5% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna ProofBench v1.1 | 64.0% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna Public Benefits Bench v1.1 | 57.6% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna SAGE | 83.4% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna Vals Science Index | 28.4% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna SRE Bench | 2.7% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna SWE-bench Multimodal | 37.5% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna Tax Agent Bench | 19.9% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 13.6% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna Terminal-Bench-Science | 4.3% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna Vals Index | 52.3% |
| Vals AI | GPT-6 Luna Vibe Code Bench v1.1 | 81.6% |
Apps
Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.
Not enough data for apps using this model yet.
Activity
Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.
API
Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.
Not currently available through EU in-region routing. In-region routing docs
Documentation
Guides, cookbooks, blog posts, and tools for building with OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna (batch) on OpenRouter.
- GPT-6 Migration GuideCookbook
- Reranking in RAG: How to Fix Bad Retrieval with a RerankerBlog post
- How to Benchmark LLMsBlog post
- How to Stop an AI Agent Stuck in an Infinite LoopBlog post
- MCP vs CLI vs Skills: What Each Costs in ContextBlog post
- LLM API Rate Limits: How to Fix OpenAI and Claude 429 ErrorsBlog post
- How to Get Structured Output from Any LLM: JSON Schema, Tool Calls, or a Decision ModelBlog post
- How to Build a Voice AI AgentBlog post
- Build an AI Code Reviewer with OpenRouterBlog post
- How to Extract Tables from a PDF with an LLMBlog post
Frequently asked questions
GPT-6 Luna is the fast, cost-efficient model in OpenAI's GPT-6 series, positioned below GPT-6 Sol. It is suited for high-volume and latency-sensitive workloads such as chat, classification, and lightweight agentic tasks, and at higher reasoning effort it can take on complex software engineering and computer-use tasks that previously called for a Sol-tier model.
The GPT-6 Luna (batch) documentation on OpenRouter includes the GPT-6 Migration Guide cookbook, the Reranking in RAG: How to Fix Bad Retrieval with a Reranker blog post, the How to Benchmark LLMs blog post, the How to Stop an AI Agent Stuck in an Infinite Loop blog post, the MCP vs CLI vs Skills: What Each Costs in Context blog post, the LLM API Rate Limits: How to Fix OpenAI and Claude 429 Errors blog post, the How to Get Structured Output from Any LLM: JSON Schema, Tool Calls, or a Decision Model blog post, the How to Build a Voice AI Agent blog post, the Build an AI Code Reviewer with OpenRouter blog post, and the How to Extract Tables from a PDF with an LLM blog post. The quickstart covers API keys and your first request, and the API reference lists every parameter.
GPT-6 Luna (batch) costs $0.05/M input tokens and $0.25/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.005/M tokens, Cache Write at $0.0625/M tokens, and Web Search at $10.00/1K calls.
GPT-6 Luna (batch) has a 1,050,000 token context window. It supports up to 128,000 completion tokens.
Yes. GPT-6 Luna (batch) accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.
Yes. OpenAI caches prompts of 1024 tokens or more automatically, and GPT-6 Luna (batch) bills a cache write on each cached prompt whether or not the cached prefix is read again. To turn caching off for a request, set prompt_cache_options.mode to "explicit" at the request root and do not mark any content block with prompt_cache_breakpoint. Explicit mode disables OpenAI-managed breakpoints, so a request with none of your own has no cacheable prefix and is billed at the plain input rate. See the prompt caching guide.
GPT-6 Luna (batch) accepts files such as PDFs, images, and text as input and returns text.
GPT-6 Luna (batch) is served by 1 provider on OpenRouter: OpenAI.
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GPT-6 Luna (batch) was released on September 22, 2026.