OpenAI / MODEL EVIDENCE

GPT-5.6 Terra

62 benchmarks · 110 observations · 69 sources · released 2026-07-09

Scores at a glance

62 benchmarks · large dot: GPT-5.6 Terra; small dots: closest models where reported

35.2256.21

GPT-5.6 Terra (Max) · ITBench-AA · root-cause score ↗

3.768.3

GPT-5.6 Terra (max) · Balrog · Average progress · % ↗

24.724.7

GPT-5.6 Terra (unknown thinking) · GDP.pdf · GDP.pdf score · % ↗

1 more reported result

24.7% · GPT-5.6 Terra (medium) · GDP.pdf · GDP.pdf score · % · Epoch AI · GDP.pdf ↗

Closest models by score

Similar positions on shared benchmark leaderboards. Smaller gaps are closer.

14.3 percentile-point gap

30 of 40 shared benchmark comparisons

15.1 percentile-point gap

32 of 40 shared benchmark comparisons

16.4 percentile-point gap

30 of 40 shared benchmark comparisons

How similarity is measured

Mean absolute gap in percentile positions on shared benchmark settings; lower is closer. At least 60% overlap is required, with a minimum of three when available. Independent evaluations are used when there are at least three; otherwise published report comparisons are used. Repeated model observations within one setting are averaged before ranking. Writing-style traits and composite indices are excluded. This describes similarity, not an overall quality ranking.

Sources

Every plotted observation links to its evaluation. Reported configurations, benchmark versions and task subsets can differ; similarity describes shared scores, not training lift.

  1. Blueprint-Bench 2 | Andon Labs ↗

    Andon Labs

  2. ARC Prize - Leaderboard ↗

    ARC Prize Foundation

  3. Arena leaderboard — WebDev evaluation ↗

    Arena

  4. APEX-Agents-AA Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  5. GPQA Diamond Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  6. ITBench-AA Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  7. MMMU-Pro Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  8. SciCode Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  9. 𝜏³-Banking Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  10. Terminal-Bench 2.1 Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  11. Terminal-Bench Hard Benchmark | Artificial Analysis ↗

    Artificial Analysis

  12. BALROG: Benchmarking Agentic LLM and VLM Reasoning On Games ↗

    Paglieri, Davide, Cupiał, Bartłomiej, Coward, Samuel, Piterbarg, Ulyana, Wolczyk, Maciej, Khan, Akbir et al. · 2024

    All 13 authors

    Paglieri, Davide, Cupiał, Bartłomiej, Coward, Samuel, Piterbarg, Ulyana, Wolczyk, Maciej, Khan, Akbir, Pignatelli, Eduardo, Kuciński, Łukasz, Pinto, Lerrel, Fergus, Rob, Foerster, Jakob Nicolaus, Parker-Holder, Jack, Rocktäschel, Tim

  13. FrontierCode Leaderboard ↗

    Cognition

  14. DTBench — Conceptual Reasoning Index ↗

    Conceptual Reasoning Index

  15. LMCA — Conceptual Reasoning Index ↗

    Conceptual Reasoning Index

  16. Cursor · CursorBench ↗

    Cursor

  17. DeepSWE ↗

    Datacurve

  18. APEX-Agents ↗

    Epoch AI

  19. ARC-AGI-2 ↗

    Epoch AI

  20. Chess Puzzles ↗

    Epoch AI

  21. CritPt v1 ↗

    Epoch AI

  22. FrontierMath Tier 4 (v2) ↗

    Epoch AI

  23. FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2) ↗

    Epoch AI

  24. Furniture Assembly Benchmark ↗

    Epoch AI

  25. GPQA Diamond ↗

    Epoch AI

  26. Mystery Game Puzzles ↗

    Epoch AI

  27. OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 ↗

    Epoch AI

  28. SimpleQA Verified ↗

    Epoch AI

  29. SimpleBench ↗

    Epoch AI

  30. Vending Bench 2 — methodology and published results ↗

    Epoch AI · 2026

  31. AI benchmarks & capabilities ↗

    Epoch AI

  32. WeirdML ↗

    Håvard Tveit Ihle

  33. DistressBench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Scale Labs / SEAL · 2026

  34. Humanity's Sixth Sense — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Scale Labs / SEAL · 2026

  35. SWE-Bench Pro V2 — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Scale Labs / SEAL · 2026

  36. SWE-Bench Pro V2 — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Scale Labs / SEAL · 2026

  37. AI Model Benchmarks — LM Council ↗

    LM Council

  38. GDP.pdf Benchmark | Surge AI ↗

    Surge AI

  39. Code Migration v1 — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  40. CorpFin — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  41. CyberBench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  42. Excel Modeling Benchmark v1 — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  43. Finance Agent v2 — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  44. GPQA Diamond — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  45. Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1 — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  46. IOI — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  47. LiveCodeBench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  48. LegalBench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  49. Legal Research Bench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  50. MedCode — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  51. MedScribe — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  52. MMLU Pro — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  53. MMMU Pro — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  54. MortgageTax — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  55. ProgramBench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  56. ProofBench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  57. Public Benefits Bench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  58. SAGE — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  59. SkillsBench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  60. SRE Bench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  61. SWE-bench Verified — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  62. Tax Agent Bench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  63. TaxEval — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  64. Terminal-Bench 4.0 — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  65. Terminal-Bench-Science — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  66. Vals Multimodal Index — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  67. Vibe Code Bench 1-100 — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  68. Vibe Code Bench — evaluation methodology and results ↗

    Vals AI · 2026

  69. Surface Evolver Bench ↗

    yhenon

Names used in source tables

GPT-5.6 Terra · GPT-5.6 Terra (Codex) xhigh · GPT-5.6 Terra (Max) · GPT-5.6 Terra (Mini-SWE-agent) · GPT-5.6 Terra (OpenHands) · GPT-5.6 Terra (Xhigh) · GPT-5.6 Terra (high) · GPT-5.6 Terra (low) · GPT-5.6 Terra (max) · GPT-5.6 Terra (medium) · GPT-5.6 Terra (unknown thinking) · GPT-5.6 Terra (xhigh) · GPT-5.6-Terra (Codex) xhigh · GPT-5.6-Terra (max) · gpt-5.6-terra