2026-10-27

Why OpenAI Is Selling GPT-6.1 Terra on Price, Not Benchmarks

OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra on October 26, charging developers half the per-token price of its predecessor. Independent tests from Artificial Analysis, however, still rank 2 Anthropic models ahead of it. Terra now costs style="font-size:1rem;color:var(--t1);line-height:1.75;margin-bottom:20px;font-weight:300;padding:14px 18px;border-left:2px solid var(--blue);background:rgba(33,136,255,.06);border-radius:0 8px 8px 0" per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens. That compares with $2 and style="font-size:1rem;color:var(--t1);line-height:1.75;margin-bottom:20px;font-weight:300;padding:14px 18px;border-left:2px solid var(--blue);background:rgba(33,136,255,.06);border-radius:0 8px 8px 0"2 for GPT-5.6 Terra, according to The post Why OpenAI Is Selling GPT-6.1 Terra on Price, Not Benchmarks appeared first on BeInCrypto.