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GPT-5.6 Luna vs MiniMax M2.7

Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated September 2026

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	GPT-5.6 Luna	MiniMax M2.7
Organization	OpenAI	MiniMax
OpenTools Score	52 74.7	42 56.5
Family	GPT-5.6	MiniMax
Status	Current	Current
Release Date	Jul 2026	Mar 2026
Context Window	1.1M tokens	197K tokens
Input Price	$0.20/M tokens	$0.30/M tokens
Output Price	$1.20/M tokens	$1.20/M tokens
Pricing Notes	OpenAI pricing page lists $1 input and $6 output per 1M tokens, plus GPT-5.6 cache-write and cache-read pricing.	Cache read: $0.0590/M tokens
Capabilities	textvisionreasoningcodingtool-useweb-searchfile-searchcomputer-useagents	textcode
Training Cutoff	Feb 16, 2026	—
Max Output	128K tokens	—
API Identifier	`gpt-5.6-luna`	`minimax/minimax-m2.7`
Benchmarks
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index	51artificial-analysis	—
Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index	74.6artificial-analysis	—
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3	37.5048artificial-analysis	23.2171artificial-analysis
GPQA Diamond	91.1111artificial-analysis	87.3737artificial-analysis
SciCode	53.588artificial-analysis	50.1157artificial-analysis
Terminal-Bench 2.1	80.8989artificial-analysis	55.4307artificial-analysis
SWE-bench Pro	—	56.22https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7
Terminal-Bench 2	—	57https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7
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Model	Input	Output	Total / mo	vs Best
GPT-5.6 LunaCheapest	$0.20	$0.60	$0.80	—
MiniMax M2.7	$0.30	$0.60	$0.90	+12%

OpenAI

GPT-5.6 Luna

GPT-5.6 Luna is OpenAI lower-cost GPT-5.6 model for high-volume reasoning, coding, and agentic workloads. OpenAI model docs list the same 1.05M token context window, 128K max output, and major tool support as the larger GPT-5.6 variants.

MiniMax

MiniMax M2.7

MiniMax M2.7 is a large language model from MiniMax. Supports up to 196,608 token context window. Available from $0.30/M input tokens.