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minimaxir • today at 6:21 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Similar 75% price cut trajectory as GPT-5.6 Sol -> GPT-6.1 Sol. Overall, Terra is still half the price of Sol.

But like the original release of Terra, it's still a weird middle child between the small-model-that-got-substantially-better (Luna) and the large-model-that-got-significiantly-cheaper (Sol). The TerminalBench 4.0 cost-per-task results are a bit confusing and I'm not sure why you would pick Terra over Sol in that case. Overall this release seems like a flex on Sonnet 5.5: a model which is having its own middle child problems between the godly Opus 5.5 and the surprisingly capable Haiku 5.5.


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wyre • today at 7:35 PM

I don't think software devs are the audience for 6.1 Terra, but instead computer work, automation, and technical writing.

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SomeonesAccount • today at 7:15 PM

Well put.