alt Hacker NewsSimilar 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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Artificial Analysis still has MiMo 2.6 Pro setting the Pareto frontier where it matters: it's as cheap as Terra High/Sol Low while being smarter than Terra Xhigh. Sol Medium beats MiMo in smarts but is priced a lot higher. Meanwhile Terra Max is dominated by Sol High in both price-per-task and smarts.
I don't think software devs are the audience for 6.1 Terra, but instead computer work, automation, and technical writing.
Well put.
the surprisingly capable Haiku 5.5
Destroyed by Anthropics crazy decision to price it x5 after 100k context.