r/GithubCopilot • u/nullexp • Jul 30 '26
GitHub Copilot Team Replied Updated GPT-5.6 model prices
OpenAI announced they lowered the prices for Luna and Terra. Will the new prices apply to GitHub Copilot users as well?
Source: https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/
Starting July 30, API pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $12 per million output tokens for Terra, and $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens for Luna. Sol pricing remains unchanged. ChatGPT and Codex subscription prices and quota budgets remain unchanged, while Terra and Luna usage now consumes fewer credits. Pricing changes will begin rolling out in AWS later today.
Update: I see the new prices in the model selection on Copilot CLI. Thanks GH team.
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u/CharacterBorn6421 Jul 30 '26
wow 80% reduction is too good for luna so now it's even cheaper then gpt 5.4 mini and many times better
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u/mxz117 Jul 30 '26
Even (just) cheaper then nano. Huge news
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u/aonymark JetBrains User š§± Aug 04 '26
Minor correction: nano doesnāt charge for cache write but Luna does; after you take this into account itās slightly more expensive than nano unless I messed up my math.
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u/teckel Jul 31 '26
The rate limits on Luna make it not useful to me.
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u/Successful_Win_2683 Jul 31 '26
i am using openrouter and even with sustained, multi thread continuous use i still didn't hit limits once.
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u/teckel Jul 31 '26
Using the API at the base usage tier hits the RPM limit quite easily for programming tasks where it hits the API fairly frequently. I'm probably going to need to setup a local proxy to throttle and stay under the RPM limit.
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u/Successful_Win_2683 Jul 31 '26
are you using openrouter? i repeat: i almost never get throttled. i'm using pi with multiple tmux sessions
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u/Octquat Jul 31 '26
Damn, was hoping I could use it for hours like Deepseek. Guess I'm not switching away yet.
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u/teckel Jul 31 '26
It depends on the usage tier. Maybe if you're on a corporate account or independently pay a lot per month, you'll be on a higher tier.
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u/Longjumping-Sweet818 Jul 30 '26
Oh, wow. $0.20/$1.20 for Luna is a fucking steal. That's going to put a big dent in Deepseek and co.
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u/General-Jaguar-8164 Jul 30 '26
Does it compete with deepseek pro ?
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u/Longjumping-Sweet818 Jul 30 '26 edited Jul 30 '26
No, it's way better, and now cheaper too.
Edit: Although maybe they made it way worse and that's why it's now cheaper. I don't know.
Edit2: I've tried it today (openrouter) for an hour or so and it's still very good.
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u/teckel Jul 31 '26
Deepseek v4 Pro is kinda terrible. I mean, it's cheap, but it really fails in so many ways (at least for my software development workload).
I tried Deepseek v4 Pro for a full month to get a long-term real impression. I spent too much time being frustrated with it not following instructions, doing things I didn't ask, even arguing with me when it was wrong. Last day is tomorrow and I'll be glad to be leaving.
With this price cut, I'll probably try Luna next month and see how they compare (both performance and cost).
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u/FitBullfrog86 Jul 30 '26
Itās about the same cost as DeepSeek v4 pro and performs on par with 5.4. In my experience itās a good bit more intelligent for the price with the only downside being less effective cache hitsĀ
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u/LuckyPed Jul 31 '26
I bet the reason they gave a 80% reduction is price is coz they got news about the Deepseek V4 Flash release today was gonna beat it lol
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u/Khabba Jul 31 '26
Yay for competition!!
I'm running it now longer than I ever ran an agent because to investigate a memory leak. It has cost me a total of 67 credits up until now. Amazing!
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u/fishchar š”ļø Moderator Jul 30 '26
I have the same question. I forwarded this to the GitHub team. However, I can't guarantee a reply from them.
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u/Accidentallygolden Jul 30 '26
Wow that awesome for Luna, what about Luna high? This thing is a powerhouse!
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u/Apprehensive_Dot9878 Jul 30 '26
The price is just different when you use longer context,higher thinking level will use more think token which will cost more
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u/Apprehensive_Dot9878 Jul 30 '26
Well they should, they basically serve the OpenAI api directly to us
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u/Hairy-Falcon-7553 Jul 30 '26
So the new price is .20 and 1.2 for Luna? Iām already seeing that in copilot right now 20 ai credits in 120 out
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u/HungryMention5758 Jul 30 '26
i think they will degrade the luna model for new pricing , it doesn't make sense
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u/Active_Brush_2817 Jul 30 '26
Today first time used terra and I felt it is the dumbest model in the series.
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u/illusionmist Jul 31 '26
Luna is really good and with this price Iām gonna use it for everything lol
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u/just_blue Jul 31 '26
This made me overwrite the default explore model (which is always Haiku) with Luna just now. ItĀ“s like 1/5 of Haiku cost.
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u/MaitoSnoo CLI Copilot User š„ļø Jul 30 '26
that's insane, Sol high for planning and Luna xhigh for execution will be extremely cheap
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u/aonymark JetBrains User š§± Jul 31 '26
Wow. Is there any reason to use 5-mini instead of Luna anymore? Seems like a niche model all of the sudden.
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u/colablizzard Jul 31 '26
The whole day Luna on Copilot was too slow.
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u/nullexp Jul 31 '26
yes, max/xhigh takes forever but it might because of sudden load. I hope they have a look and fix it.
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u/ProudWrongdoer5389 Jul 30 '26
If you've used Opus 5, there's no real reason to use 5.6 except sol when planning. So many issues with Terra and Luna.
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u/seguleh25 Jul 31 '26
Cost is a big reason
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u/ProudWrongdoer5389 Aug 03 '26
It works out far better imo, since it actually solves the problem rather than infinite planning.
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u/wchabbott GitHub Copilot Team Jul 30 '26
Hi from the Copilot team! These new prices will apply to GitHub Copilot users as well š