GPT-5 Nano (2025-08-07) vs GPT-6 Luna

Wins 0 of 4 benchmarks
$0.017 / task
Wins 0 of 4 benchmarks
GPT-5 Nano (2025-08-07)—
GPT-6 Luna28.3
GPT-5 Nano (2025-08-07)—
GPT-6 Luna2.5
GPT-5 Nano (2025-08-07)—
GPT-6 Luna40.5
GPT-5 Nano (2025-08-07)—
GPT-6 Luna77.9

Specs

SpecGPT-5 Nano (2025-08-07)GPT-6 Luna
Input, per 1M!$0.05$0.10
Output, per 1M!$0.40$0.50
Cost per task?—$0.017
Context400K1.05M
WeightsNot verifiedClosed
ReleasedAug 2025Sep 2026
See images✓✓
Read PDFs?Partial
Hear audio——
Watch video——
Call tools✓✓
Force a tool call?Partial
Return strict JSON✓✓
Search the web?✓
Run code?✓
Use a computer?✓

What breaks when you switch

GPT-5 Nano (2025-08-07) → GPT-6 Luna
Function calling only with none · Chat Completions›

Chat Completions function calling requires reasoning_effort none; use Responses for reasoning with tools.

More than 272K input tokens›

Prompts above 272K input tokens charge 2× input and cache rates and 1.5× output rates for the entire request.

Remove unsupported sampling parameters›

When reasoning effort is not none, remove temperature, top_p and top_logprobs, plus Chat Completions logprobs or Responses output logprobs inclusion.

Cache writes billed at 1.25x›

Cache writes cost 1.25× the uncached input token rate.

GPT-6 Luna → GPT-5 Nano (2025-08-07)
Context: 1.05M → 400K