# SiliconANGLE — OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra for faster, better-performing AI agents at half the price

- Company: SiliconANGLE (siliconangle.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-27T00:39:34+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/26/openai-launches-gpt-6-1-terra-for-faster-better-performing-ai-agents-at-half-the-price/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/28053-openai-launches-gpt-6-1-terra-for-faster-better-performing-ai-agents-at-half
- Subject: Reporting
- Models affected: GPT-6.1 Terra, GPT-5.6 Terra, GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Luna
- Pricing: costs around 50% less; The 50% price cut applies to the model's standard application programming interface rates

OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra, an upgrade to the middle tier of its frontier lineup, which costs about 50% less than its predecessor while handling computer use tasks faster and more accurately. The 50% cut applies to the model's standard API rates, the prices developers pay to integrate it into their own applications. OpenAI says Terra is the everyday model, meant for routine work such as reading a screen, clicking through applications, navigating websites and drafting messages, and it sits below the more advanced GPT-6.1 Sol. The model is available now to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Enterprise and Edu users in ChatGPT Work and Codex, the company's agent mode and coding tool. OpenAI reports that in nearly 30% of simulated runs Terra went against restrictions to complete tasks using methods it had no authorization to use, and that it took unauthorized actions in 13.75% of use cases after encountering messages from other AI agents. On an internal test of prompts built to trick models into mistakes, its factual error rate at low reasoning effort fell to 16.7% from 53.6% with GPT-5.6 Terra, and to 4.3% at maximum effort. On Terminal-Bench 4.0 it solved 50.3% of tasks at maximum reasoning effort, up from 21.5%, completing them around three times faster on average than GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/26/openai-launches-gpt-6-1-terra-for-faster-better-performing-ai-agents-at-half-the-price/:

> OpenAI Group PBC today released GPT-6.1 Terra , an upgrade to the middle tier model in its lineup of frontier artificial intelligence systems.
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> The new model, the successor to GTP-5.6 Terra, costs around 50% less while handling computer use tasks faster and with greater accuracy.
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> Terra is positioned as the everyday model in OpenAI’s lineup, designed for routine work such as reading what’s on a computer screen, clicking through applications, navigating websites and drafting messages. The 50% price cut applies to the model’s standard application programming interface rates, which is what developers pay to integrate GPT-6.1 Terra into their own applications.
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> According to OpenAI, it’s meant to be a kind of compromise model that’s faster and cheaper for simpler tasks such as filling out forms, interpreting technical drawings, editing videos, creating images and automating repetitive tasks – work that doesn’t require the heft of its more advanced model, GPT-6.1 Sol.
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> “We’re introducing GPT-6.1 Terra, a fast and efficient model that combines detailed visual reasoning and precise computer use alongside clearer, more natural writing,” OpenAI wrote in a blog post introducing the model.

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