Model comparison

GPT-5.6 Terra vs NVILA 8B

GPT-5.6 Terra has enough public results to be ranked (#15); NVILA 8B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI

59.1

Rank #15 Confirmed

NVILA 8B NVIDIA

36.7

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where GPT-5.6 Terra leads 47.5 to 34.3.
  • NVILA 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.6 Terra and NVILA 8B specifications
GPT-5.6 TerraNVILA 8B
ProviderOpenAINVIDIA
Noometry Index59.136.7
Released2026-07-092024-12-10
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$12—
Results tracked521

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 57.1 (#16), NVILA 8B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraNVILA 8B
DeepSWE69.6%—
FrontierCode41.3%—
CursorBench41.3%—
LMArena WebDev1520—
SciCode55%—
WeirdML78.3%—
LMArena Coding1484—
ALE-Bench1,951—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 40.2 (#23), NVILA 8B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraNVILA 8B
APEX-Agents58.2%—
BALROG53.2%—
GDP.pdf24.7%—
Vending-Bench 27,343—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 60.6 (#19), NVILA 8B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraNVILA 8B
ARC-AGI-283.9%—
SimpleBench48.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark51.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)78.4%—
ARC-AGI-196.5%—
CritPt30%—
Chess Puzzles54%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1467—
Mystery Game Puzzles35%—
DTBench93.3%—
LMCA55%—
Surface Evolver Bench83.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index159.31—

Math Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 81.5 (#10), NVILA 8B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraNVILA 8B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)86%—
FrontierMath Tier 470.7%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202599.7%—
ProofBench74%—
LMArena Math1463—

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 61.3 (#27), NVILA 8B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraNVILA 8B
GPQA Diamond93.3%—
SimpleQA Verified43.2%—
LMArena Expert1492—

Multimodal GPT-5.6 Terra leads

GPT-5.6 Terra: 47.5 (#10), NVILA 8B: 34.3

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraNVILA 8B
LMArena Vision1271—
Video-MME—64.2%
Blueprint-Bench 230.8%—
Furniture Assembly54.2%—
LMArena Document1472—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 54.5 (#42), NVILA 8B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraNVILA 8B
LMArena Non-English1439—
LMArena Chinese1514—
LMArena French1476—
LMArena German1462—
LMArena Japanese1446—
LMArena Korean1420—
LMArena Russian1450—
LMArena Spanish1455—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 76.6 (#38), NVILA 8B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraNVILA 8B
LMArena Instruction Following1453—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 44.4 (#64), NVILA 8B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraNVILA 8B
LMArena Longer Query1452—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.6 Terra: 70.4 (#21), NVILA 8B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.6 TerraNVILA 8B
LMArena Text1446—
LMArena Creative Writing1411—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1855—
EQ-Bench 41234—
LMArena Multi-Turn1451—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.6 Terra better than NVILA 8B?

GPT-5.6 Terra has enough public results to be ranked (#15); NVILA 8B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.6 Terra and NVILA 8B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.6 Terra has 52 scored results on Noometry and NVILA 8B has 1.

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