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title: "GPT-5.6 Terra — API access"
description: "GPT-5.6 Terra API pricing: official $2.50/$15 per 1M tokens, from $1/$6 with the apiToken.sale discount. Balanced GPT-5.6 tier on one prepaid balance."
url: "https://apitoken.sale/models/gpt-5-6-terra"
language: "en"
---
# GPT-5.6 Terra

GPT-5.6 Terra is the balanced tier of the GPT-5.6 line — half the flagship token price, with the same reasoning-effort controls and the full 272K context.

- **Model ID:** `gpt-5.6-terra`
- **Tier:** Balanced
- **Context window:** 272K tokens
- **Max output:** 32K tokens
- **Official price (per 1M):** $2.5 input / $15 output
- **Your price (per 1M):** input $1 → $0.75, output $6 → $4.5 (60%–70% off)
- **Base URL:** `https://openai.api.apitoken.sale/v1` · **Endpoints:** `POST /v1/responses`, `POST /v1/chat/completions` (Authorization: Bearer)

## Best for

- Day-to-day coding and chat at half the flagship price.
- Agentic workflows where flagship cost is not justified.
- High-volume production traffic on the OpenAI-compatible API.

## Notes

- Same reasoning-effort range as the flagship, including max.
- Text and image input, text output. SSE streaming on both Responses and Chat Completions.
- Requests above 272K input tokens bill at OpenAI long-context rates: 2× input and 1.5× output on the whole request.

## Call it

```bash
curl https://openai.api.apitoken.sale/v1/responses \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APITOKEN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "gpt-5.6-terra", "input": "Reply with exactly: connected"}'
```

## FAQ

**How much does the GPT-5.6 Terra API cost?**

Officially $2.50 per 1M input tokens and $15 per 1M output tokens, with cached input at $0.25. With the apiToken.sale discount that starts at $1/$6 and reaches $0.75/$4.50.

**Terra or Sol?**

Terra is the balanced default for most workloads at half the price; route the hardest reasoning to gpt-5.6-sol. Both run on the same key, balance and endpoint.

**What is the model ID?**

gpt-5.6-terra. Point any OpenAI-compatible client at https://openai.api.apitoken.sale/v1 and send it as the model parameter.

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API reference: https://apitoken.sale/md/docs · All models: https://apitoken.sale/md/models