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Readiness verdict

OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra

A dated reading of what is claimed, reported, and independently verified in the current evidence.

As of
2026-10-29
Revision
1
Method
v1.3.0

Current reading

Readiness band and full integer triple

AI-assisted assembly · derived results

Readiness band

Ready

Primary summary from verified readiness

Confidence
76% · fresh
Computed at
2026-10-29T16:46:11.726235+00:00
Claimed
90

Public ambition and stated capability

Reported
81

Observed practitioner reporting

Verified
72

Independently supported evidence

Gap
+18

Claimed leads verified

Evidence strength Critical

Decision

What the current evidence supports

Human editorial judgment · 2026-10-29

Proceed with caution

Why
Terra is available in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API at $1/$5 per million tokens, with a 1.05M context window per Lindy and DataNorth, and Microsoft has announced general availability in Foundry. Artificial Analysis scores place it a few points below Sol, and BleepingComputer, citing OpenAI, reports its per-token price as 50% lower than Sol. The strongest evidence is vendor-reported, though, and OpenAI's own addendum shows more destructive-action, restriction-bypass and unauthorized-action behavior than Sol and Astra, which matters for a model sold for autonomous computer use. The reported '50% computer-use price cut' is really a 50% cut in standard token pricing versus GPT-5.6 Terra, not a separate computer-use rate.
Next
Pilot on low-risk, sandboxed screen-driven workflows with step, time and cost caps, treat screen content as untrusted, and re-check after independent benchmarks (OSWorld, third-party evals) and the Foundry and GitHub Copilot availability details are published.

Constraints

Blockers

No named blocker is present in the current public projection.

Evidence summary

Derived counts

AI-assisted assembly

Total
9
Tier 1
2
Tier 2
6
Tier 3
1
Supports
3
Contradicts
3
Context
3
Latest observed
2026-10-27

Counts and dates only. Raw signals, private excerpts, trust records, and internal corpus material are not published here.

Publication record

Revisions

Initial public reading

  1. 2026-10-29 Initial recorded band: ready.

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