Amazon Bedrock announces up to 80% lower prices for OpenAI GPT‑5.6 models

OpenAI Announces Lower Prices for GPT-5.6 Models on Amazon Bedrock

Effective July 30, 2026, on-demand inference prices for GPT-5.6 Luna and GPT-5.6 Terra on Amazon Bedrock have been reduced by 80% and 20%, respectively. These reductions align with OpenAI's first-party pricing changes for these models.

Key Highlights

• GPT-5.6 Luna: Optimized for high-volume workloads, suitable for content processing, classification, customer-service automation, and routine tasks.
• GPT-5.6 Terra: Balances intelligence, speed, and cost for sophisticated reasoning in everyday production workloads.
• No Changes Required: The new prices apply automatically, with no action needed from customers.

Availability

GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra are available in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon) through the OpenAI Responses API on the bedrock-mantle endpoint.

What to do

• Review the Amazon Bedrock OpenAI model documentation to get started.
• Visit the Amazon Bedrock pricing page for the latest pricing information.

Source: AWS release notes

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