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OpenAI Releases GPT Astra

OpenAI has released GPT Astra, a new model family including GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-5.6 Terra, and GPT-5.6 Luna, designed for complex reasoning, balanced intelligence and cost, and cost-sensitive high-volume workloads, respectively. The models support text and image input, text output, multilingual capabilities, and vision, and are available via the Responses API and Client SDKs.

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OpenAI Releases GPT Astra
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Choosing a model #

If you're not sure where to start, use GPT-5.6 Sol, our flagship model for complex reasoning and coding. Choose GPT-5.6 Terra to balance intelligence and cost, or GPT-5.6 Luna for cost-sensitive, high-volume workloads. All latest OpenAI models support text and image input, text output, multilingual capabilities, and vision. Models are available via the Responses API and our Client SDKs.

Flagship models #

Start with GPT-5.6 Sol for complex reasoning and coding, choose GPT-5.6 Terra to balance intelligence and cost, or use GPT-5.6 Luna for cost-sensitive, high-volume workloads.

Specialized models #

Purpose-built for specific tasks.

OpenAI Daybreak

Advanced cyber models for defenders

GPT-5.6 Cyber

Our most advanced cybersecurity model for authorized vulnerability research and security testing.

Daybreak Red

An alias for advanced cybersecurity models for authorized vulnerability research and security testing.

Daybreak Blue

An alias for flagship general-purpose models with safeguards for defensive cybersecurity work.

Image

Models for image generation and editing

Realtime

Models for realtime speech and translation

GPT-Realtime-2.1 Reasoning model with tool use

GPT-Realtime-2.1 Mini Reasoning model with tool use

GPT-Realtime-2 Reasoning model with tool use

GPT-Realtime-Translate Streaming speech-to-speech translation model

GPT-Realtime-1.5 The best voice model for audio in, audio out

GPT-Realtime Mini

Deprecated

A cost-efficient version of GPT-Realtime

Speech generation

Models for generating natural-sounding speech from text

Transcription

Models for transcribing speech into text

GPT-Transcribe

High-accuracy speech-to-text model for file and Realtime input transcription

GPT-Live-Transcribe

Low-latency speech-to-text model for realtime transcription

GPT-Realtime-Whisper

Streaming speech-to-text model for realtime transcription

GPT-4o Transcribe

Speech-to-text model powered by GPT-4o GPT-4o Mini Transcribe

Speech-to-text model powered by GPT-4o Mini

Browse our full catalog of models #

Diverse models for a variety of tasks

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