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Alternatives to GPT-6 Luna

For summarising documents cheaply, GPT-6 Luna scores 37 and costs $0.55 per 1,000 summaries. Here’s what beats it on price, on quality, or on privacy.

Overall 37$0.20 / 1M
92% similarClaude Haiku 5.5Anthropic
Overall44+7
Blended / 1M$0.20±0%
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Claude Haiku 5.5 vs GPT-6 LunaOverall+7Coding+4Writing−7Support+3Value+8Context1M
87% similarOpen weightsGemma 4 31B ITGoogle
Overall28−9
Blended / 1M$0.25+25%
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Gemma 4 31B IT vs GPT-6 LunaOverall−9Coding−18Writing+19Support+20Value−10Context262K
87% similarOpen weightsNemotron 3.5 Super VLNVIDIA
Overall27−10
Blended / 1M$0.24+19%
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Nemotron 3.5 Super VL vs GPT-6 LunaOverall−10Coding−22Writing+2Support+3Value−11Context1M
86% similarOpen weightsMiniMax-M3MiniMax
Overall31−6
Blended / 1M$0.53+163%
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MiniMax-M3 vs GPT-6 LunaOverall−6Coding−3Writing+15Support+18Value−10Context1M
82% similarOpen weightsNemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55BNVIDIA
Overall34−3
Blended / 1M$1.05+425%
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Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B vs GPT-6 LunaOverall−3Coding+3Writing+12Support+7Value−12Context262K
81% similarGemini 3.5 Flash LiteGoogle
Overall29−8
Blended / 1M$0.85+325%
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Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs GPT-6 LunaOverall−8Coding−12Writing+19Support+15Value−15Context1M
79% similarOpen weightsGLM-5.3-FlashZ.ai
Overall55+18
Blended / 1M$0.24+19%
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GLM-5.3-Flash vs GPT-6 LunaOverall+18Coding+21Writing+33Support+36Value+18Context1M
78% similarMistral Large 4Mistral AI
Overall37±0
Blended / 1M$2.07+932%
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Mistral Large 4 vs GPT-6 LunaOverall±0Coding+7Writing+3Support+15Value−12Context1M
73% similarGrok 4.7xAI
Overall35−2
Blended / 1M$3.00+1400%
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Grok 4.7 vs GPT-6 LunaOverall−2Coding+4Writing+5Support±0Value−16Context500K

Similarity is closeness in summarising documents cheaply score and in price. Cheaper means at least 30% less for within 5 points. Scores are provisional.

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