Compare / GPT-5.1 vs GPT-5.6 Terra

GPT-5.1 vs GPT-5.6 Terra

23 results from 5 sources that measured both models. Each row is in the source's own units; there is no overall winner.

GPT-5.1
OpenAI · profile
GPT-5.6 Terra
OpenAI · profile
Results compared
23
Shared sources
5
BenchmarkMetricGPT-5.1GPT-5.6 Terra
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4161,477
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4591,467
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedBusiness, management and financeArena rating 1,4481,466
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedCreative writingArena rating 1,4281,428
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedExpert promptsArena rating 1,4821,504
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedInstruction followingArena rating 1,4501,462
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4561,465
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedWriting, literature and languageArena rating 1,4371,445
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Coding Indexindex score 49.476.7
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score 24.742.1
Artificial AnalysisreportedGPQA Diamond% of questions 87.3%92.5%
Artificial AnalysisreportedHumanity's Last Exam% of questions 28.5%42.9%
Artificial AnalysisreportedIFBench% of instructions 72.9%71.2%
Artificial AnalysisreportedLong-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions 80.0%83.0%
Artificial AnalysisreportedTerminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks 52.4%88.0%
Artificial AnalysisreportedTerminal-Bench Hard% of tasks 45.5%62.9%
Artificial AnalysisreportedΤ-bench banking% of tasks 15.9%40.2%
Artificial AnalysisreportedΤ²-bench telecom% of tasks 81.9%86.3%
SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI)reportedCorrect answers% of questions 48.0%43.2%
UGI LeaderboardreportedRequested-length error% off the requested word count 113.0%22.0%
UGI LeaderboardreportedStyle adherencescore from 0 to 1 0.380.39
UGI LeaderboardreportedWriting scorescore out of 100 55.860.4
Vending-Bench 2reportedMoney after a yearUS dollars $1,473.43$7,343.21

Bold green marks the better value on that metric. Where a source reports ranges that overlap, the difference may not be meaningful; see the benchmark page for ranges.