Model comparison

GPT-5.6 Luna vs Sonar Pro

GPT-5.6 Luna has enough public results to be ranked (#30); Sonar Pro does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI

54.6

Rank #30 Confirmed

Sonar Pro Perplexity

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Unranked

Summary

  • GPT-5.6 Luna is cheaper at $0.20 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Sonar Pro.
  • GPT-5.6 Luna accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

GPT-5.6 Luna and Sonar Pro specifications
GPT-5.6 LunaSonar Pro
ProviderOpenAIPerplexity
Noometry Index54.6—
Released2026-07-092024-01-01
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M200K
Max output128K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.20$3
Output $ / M tokens$1.20$15
Results tracked521

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 54.5 (#28), Sonar Pro: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaSonar Pro
DeepSWE67.2%—
FrontierCode39.8%—
CursorBench35.9%—
LMArena WebDev1519—
SciCode53.6%—
WeirdML60.9%—
LMArena Coding1466—
ALE-Bench1,667—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 34.4 (#45), Sonar Pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaSonar Pro
APEX-Agents43%—
BALROG45.6%—
GDP.pdf22.7%—
LMArena Search—1130
Vending-Bench 24,095—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 47.6 (#43), Sonar Pro: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaSonar Pro
ARC-AGI-259.5%—
SimpleBench46.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark49.1%—
NYT Connections (extended)69.4%—
ARC-AGI-188%—
CritPt20.6%—
Chess Puzzles40%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1451—
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—
DTBench89.1%—
LMCA48.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench61.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.39—

Math Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 77.7 (#14), Sonar Pro: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaSonar Pro
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)82.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 461%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.3%—
ProofBench60%—
LMArena Math1458—

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 58.5 (#34), Sonar Pro: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaSonar Pro
GPQA Diamond91.6%—
SimpleQA Verified41%—
LMArena Expert1478—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 42.7 (#28), Sonar Pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaSonar Pro
LMArena Vision1258—
Blueprint-Bench 222.6%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1457—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 52.8 (#78), Sonar Pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaSonar Pro
LMArena Non-English1417—
LMArena Chinese1470—
LMArena French1456—
LMArena German1454—
LMArena Japanese1411—
LMArena Korean1415—
LMArena Russian1428—
LMArena Spanish1448—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 75.6 (#57), Sonar Pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaSonar Pro
LMArena Instruction Following1437—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 43.9 (#82), Sonar Pro: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaSonar Pro
LMArena Longer Query1436—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 68.0 (#29), Sonar Pro: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaSonar Pro
LMArena Text1431—
LMArena Creative Writing1396—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1829—
EQ-Bench 41156—
LMArena Multi-Turn1434—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.6 Luna better than Sonar Pro?

GPT-5.6 Luna has enough public results to be ranked (#30); Sonar Pro does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.6 Luna or Sonar Pro?

GPT-5.6 Luna is cheaper. It lists at $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Sonar Pro lists at $3 and $15.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.6 Luna does, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.6 Luna and Sonar Pro share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.6 Luna has 52 scored results on Noometry and Sonar Pro has 1.

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