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GPT-6 Astra

OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra is a major chatbot model for writing and answering questions, offered to developers online.

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GPT-6 Luna

OpenAI's new GPT-6 Luna model writes text and answers questions, offered to developers and not free to download.

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The basics

Released

Sep 3
Sep 22

What it does

Text and chat: Writes, answers questions and holds a conversation.Thinks first: Can reason step by step before it answers: slower, but better at maths, code and tricky questions.Sees images: Understands pictures, screenshots and charts you share with it.Reads files: Reads documents such as PDFs.
Text and chat: Writes, answers questions and holds a conversation.Thinks first: Can reason step by step before it answers: slower, but better at maths, code and tricky questions.Sees images: Understands pictures, screenshots and charts you share with it.Reads files: Reads documents such as PDFs.

Knowledge cutoff

The latest events it learned about

April 2026
May 2026More recent

Download

No: it runs on the maker's servers
No: it runs on the maker's servers

Where to use it

OpenAI's app: ChatGPT ↗Also for developers, through an API
OpenAI's app: ChatGPT ↗Also for developers, through an API

Price and limits, for developers

Input

Per million tokens

$10.00
$0.10Cheaper

Output

Per million tokens

$50.00
$0.50Cheaper

Cached input

Per million tokens

$1.00
$0.01Cheaper

Context window

How much it takes in at once

1.05M tokens about 790,000 words
1.05M tokens about 790,000 words

Longest answer

128K tokens about 96,000 words
128K tokens about 96,000 words

How they score

Combined test score

Epoch Capabilities Index · Epoch AI

169#2 of 237Higher
157#34 of 237

GPT-6 Astra scores 13 points higher, a big step.

Chat answers, by people's votes

LMArena text, adjusted for style · LMArena

1,474#34 of 86Higher
1,440#84 of 86

In blind votes, people pick GPT-6 Astra over GPT-6 Luna about 55% of the time.

Building apps, by people's votes

LMArena WebDev · LMArena

1,767#4 of 85Higher
1,577#38 of 85

In blind votes, people pick GPT-6 Astra over GPT-6 Luna about 75% of the time.

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