Model comparison

GPT-5.6 Luna vs Sonar Reasoning Pro

GPT-5.6 Luna has enough public results to be ranked (#24); Sonar Reasoning Pro does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI

54.7

Rank #24 Confirmed

Summary

  • GPT-5.6 Luna is cheaper at $0.20 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $8 for Sonar Reasoning Pro.
  • GPT-5.6 Luna accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

GPT-5.6 Luna and Sonar Reasoning Pro specifications
GPT-5.6 LunaSonar Reasoning Pro
ProviderOpenAIPerplexity
Noometry Index54.7—
Released2026-07-092024-01-01
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M128K
Max output128K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.20$2
Output $ / M tokens$1.20$8
Results tracked511

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 53.9 (#25), Sonar Reasoning Pro: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaSonar Reasoning Pro
DeepSWE67.2%—
FrontierCode39.8%—
CursorBench35.9%—
LMArena WebDev1517—
SciCode53.6%—
WeirdML60.9%—
LMArena Coding1466—
ALE-Bench1,667—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 35.3 (#37), Sonar Reasoning Pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaSonar Reasoning Pro
BALROG45.6%—
GDP.pdf22.7%—
LMArena Search—1139
Vending-Bench 24,095—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 47.5 (#38), Sonar Reasoning Pro: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaSonar Reasoning 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 Prompts1452—
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—
DTBench89.1%—
LMCA48.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench61.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.32—

Math Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 77.5 (#12), Sonar Reasoning Pro: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaSonar Reasoning Pro
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)82.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 461%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.3%—
ProofBench60%—
LMArena Math1455—

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 58.6 (#31), Sonar Reasoning Pro: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaSonar Reasoning Pro
GPQA Diamond91.6%—
SimpleQA Verified41%—
LMArena Expert1479—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 43.0 (#22), Sonar Reasoning Pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaSonar Reasoning Pro
LMArena Vision1259—
Blueprint-Bench 222.6%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1457—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 53.0 (#73), Sonar Reasoning Pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaSonar Reasoning Pro
LMArena Non-English1418—
LMArena Chinese1469—
LMArena French1457—
LMArena German1459—
LMArena Japanese1416—
LMArena Korean1414—
LMArena Russian1428—
LMArena Spanish1445—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 76.0 (#48), Sonar Reasoning Pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaSonar Reasoning Pro
LMArena Instruction Following1440—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 43.9 (#78), Sonar Reasoning Pro: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaSonar Reasoning Pro
LMArena Longer Query1437—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Luna: 68.3 (#27), Sonar Reasoning Pro: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 LunaSonar Reasoning Pro
LMArena Text1432—
LMArena Creative Writing1397—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1829—
EQ-Bench 41156—
LMArena Multi-Turn1433—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.6 Luna better than Sonar Reasoning Pro?

GPT-5.6 Luna has enough public results to be ranked (#24); Sonar Reasoning Pro does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

GPT-5.6 Luna is cheaper. It lists at $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Sonar Reasoning Pro lists at $2 and $8.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.6 Luna does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

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

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.6 Luna has 51 scored results on Noometry and Sonar Reasoning Pro has 1.

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