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Alternatives to GPT-5.6 Terra

For customer support replies, GPT-5.6 Terra scores 57 and costs $7.80 per 1,000 replies. Here’s what beats it on price, on quality, or on privacy.

Overall 60$4.50 / 1M
98% similarGPT-6.1 SolOpenAI
Overall74+14
Blended / 1M$4.00−11%
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GPT-6.1 Sol vs GPT-5.6 TerraOverall+14Coding+24Writing+5Support+1Value+14Context1.1M
98% similarClaude Sonnet 5Anthropic
Overall53−7
Blended / 1M$4.00−11%
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Claude Sonnet 5 vs GPT-5.6 TerraOverall−7Coding+1Writing±0Support−1Value−7Context1M
91% similarOpen weightsDeepSeek V4 ProDeepSeek
Overall53−7
Blended / 1M$1.98−56%
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DeepSeek V4 Pro vs GPT-5.6 TerraOverall−7Coding+2Writing+8Support+2Value−3Context1M
87% similarClaude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic
Overall79+19
Blended / 1M$4.00−11%
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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs GPT-5.6 TerraOverall+19Coding+33Writing+21Support+12Value+19Context1M
86% similarGPT-5.6 SolOpenAI
Overall68+8
Blended / 1M$8.00+78%
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GPT-5.6 Sol vs GPT-5.6 TerraOverall+8Coding+13Writing+14Support+9Value+4Context1.1M
86% similarGPT-6 AstraOpenAI
Overall74+14
Blended / 1M$20.00+344%
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GPT-6 Astra vs GPT-5.6 TerraOverall+14Coding+28Writing+2Support−1Value+6Context1.1M
84% similarOpen weightsGLM-5.3Z.ai
Overall61+1
Blended / 1M$2.15−52%
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GLM-5.3 vs GPT-5.6 TerraOverall+1Coding+14Writing+17Support+10Value+4Context1M
83% similarMistral Large 4Mistral AI
Overall37−23
Blended / 1M$2.07−54%
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Mistral Large 4 vs GPT-5.6 TerraOverall−23Coding+1Writing−19Support−11Value−20Context1M
82% similarQwen3.8 MaxAlibaba (Qwen)
Overall66+6
Blended / 1M$3.00−33%
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Qwen3.8 Max vs GPT-5.6 TerraOverall+6Coding+21Writing+22Support+15Value+8Context1M

Similarity is closeness in customer support replies score and in price. Cheaper means at least 30% less for within 5 points. Scores are provisional.

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