OpenAI Release Notes

GPT-6.1 Terra understands what’s on screen, takes action across apps, writes naturally, and is a more capable model for your whole workday with the efficiency to take on more of it.

GPT-6.1 Terra continues to advance the cost-intelligence frontier across our model families.

Introducing GPT-6 Terra

It’s a significant step up over GPT‑5.6 Terra, with 50% lower standard API prices.

In ChatGPT Work and Codex, your usage allowance goes further with GPT-6.1 Terra than with GPT‑5.6 Terra—and far more than with GPT‑6.1 Sol or GPT‑6 Astra.

For in-depth research or complex coding, choose GPT-6.1 Sol or GPT-6 Astra.

GPT-6.1 Terra substantially outperforms GPT-5.6 Terra on Agents’ Last Exam, a test of how well agents use software at work.

It even matches GPT-6 Astra at one-tenth the price per token and finishes tasks over 3× faster on average than both Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol.

GPT-6.1 Terra is rolling out now and is available to all Plus, Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users in ChatGPT Work and Codex.

Developers can also access it through the OpenAI API as gpt-6.1-terra.

Link to the model card with pricing, rate limits and additional info:

GPT-6.1 Terra Model | OpenAI API

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GPT-6.1 Terra is rolling out in the OpenAI API as gpt-6.1-terra and in ChatGPT Work and Codex. It supports a range of tasks, including visual reasoning, computer use, and writing.

Standard API pricing is $1 per million input tokens, $0.05 per million cached input tokens, and $5 per million output tokens. API usage is billed separately from ChatGPT subscriptions.

In ChatGPT, Terra is available in Work and Codex, not Chat. It does not support UAE inference residency; this restriction is based on where inference runs, not your location.

For API capabilities and availability, see: Model directory. For help choosing a model in Work or Codex, see: Models.

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Custom GPT creation cutoff for Enterprise

New custom GPT creation is now disabled for affected Enterprise workspaces with the exception of FedRAMP workspaces. Existing unmigrated GPTs remain usable and editable until their applicable retirement date. Once migrated, the original GPT becomes read-only.

Use Plugin Creator for new reusable workflows. For retirement dates, migration steps, and workspace-specific guidance, see:

Custom GPT retirement and migration FAQ

GPT-6.1 Terra

GPT-6.1 Terra is rolling out in ChatGPT Work and Codex. It supports a range of tasks, including visual reasoning, computer use, and writing.

As the rollout reaches your Enterprise or Edu workspace, members can use Terra when they have permission to use both the model and Work or Codex. Workspace owners and admins can review model-access settings and assigned roles to help members understand their access.

To get started, select GPT-6.1 Terra from the model list in Work or Codex. You can use Standard or Fast mode where available, with the same default Power presets and overall plan limits as before.

Terra is available in Work and Codex, not Chat. It does not support UAE inference residency; this restriction is based on where inference runs, not your location.

For help using the model, see:

ChatGPT Work and Codex. For current usage estimates, see:

Pricing.

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OpenAI Economic Research releases data for researchers to explore questions on AI and labor more deeply.

Today, we are releasing OpenAI Signals data that explores 165 work activities across nearly 100 countries, revealing how consumers use ChatGPT for work. This data gives researchers a new way to study AI’s role in the economy, with new information on the work activities people bring to ChatGPT—from preparing instructional materials and developing marketing content to programming and analyzing business data.

Researchers can use this data to explore how ChatGPT use for work differs across countries, track changes over time, and match this data to other economic indicators. The release connects ChatGPT usage to 165 work activity categories called Intermediate Work Activities (IWAs). IWAs are commonly-used categories of tasks for the kinds of work people do across occupations. The data is represented quarterly, spanning a period from the first quarter of 2025 through the third quarter of 2026.

Understanding how people use AI for work at a deeper level

Our new data draws on O*NET, a standardized framework that groups occupation-specific tasks into broader categories of work activities shared across occupations. Using a common framework helps researchers compare ChatGPT use with other types of occupational and employment data.

The interactive chart below can be used to explore these work activities within a specific country over time, moving from broad activity groups to more specific activities. The data shows wide variation across countries in how people use ChatGPT for work.

Explore the work people bring to ChatGPT. Select an activity group to see the tasks within it, see how those change over time, or choose a country to explore its mix of work-related messages.

Connecting this data to IWAs revealed that work-related use became less concentrated in the most common activities. That means that countries tended to specialize in their work over time, and different countries specialized in different types of work. These differences might reflect variation in the kind of work done across countries or varying access to AI tools. Exploring these questions is one example of many that researchers can pursue with this new data.

Across 74 countries observed in every quarter, the ten most common activities represented an average of 51.1% of each country’s classified work messages in Q3 2026, down from 56.0% in Q1 2025.

How researchers can use this data

Connecting ChatGPT usage data with IWAs lets researchers compare ChatGPT messages with activities performed across U.S. jobs. The paired visualizations below compare how people use ChatGPT with the activities performed across U.S. jobs. This comparison shows the difference in how people use ChatGPT for work and the actual work being done in the U.S. economy. The two distributions differ substantially, largely because about 43% of the employment-weighted task mix for mapped U.S. occupations falls into Other IWAs, outside the individually reported categories. These include activities such as moving materials, operating vehicles, and maintaining health or medical records. These omitted categories did not meet our threshold for consistent representation in the original U.S. ChatGPT sample.

Select an activity to see how much it appears in ChatGPT usage versus the overall U.S. economy.

Explore the data

This release builds on OpenAI Signals, our ongoing effort to share evidence about how people use AI. The data covers work-related messages on individual ChatGPT plans and does not include enterprise messages or Codex use. We invite researchers to explore the data, connect it with other sources, and investigate what these patterns mean for workers and businesses.

To protect users’ privacy, researchers do not read individual conversations. Automated systems classify messages after identifying information is removed. We publish aggregated statistics, withhold results for small groups, and add statistical noise to protect individual messages.

Citation

@online{openaiecon2026signalsdata,
author = {Aaron Chatterji and Thomas Cunningham and David J. Deming and Zoe Hitzig and Drew Johnston and Alex Martin Richmond and Christopher Ong and Carl Yan Shan and Kevin Wadman},
title = {{OpenAI} Signals v3.0},
year = {2026},
organization = {OpenAI},
url = {https://openai.com/signals/data-download/},
urldate = {2026-10-26},
note = {Data download and methodology},
}

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1. Addendum to GPT-6 Astra System Card: GPT-6.1 Terra

Today, we’re introducing GPT-6.1 Terra, the latest model in the GPT-6 series. As described in the blog, GPT-6.1 Terra is a fast, efficient model for high-volume professional work, with strong image analysis and computer use capabilities. This system card addendum provides updates on the baseline safety metrics and evaluation results for GPT-6.1 Terra.

Under our Preparedness Framework, we are treating GPT-6.1 Terra as Critical in cybersecurity and High for Biological and Chemical capability. Based on that assessment, GPT-6.1 Terra uses the same safeguards stack as GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra (with probes updated to be compatible with the model), and is described in detail in the GPT-6 Astra system card.

1. Model Data and Training

GPT-6.1 Terra uses the same types of data and training as GPT-6 Astra, described in the GPT-6 Astra card.

For previously launched models, the values published at launch reflect the versions evaluated at that time. The comparison values for previously launched models that are shown here may reflect later versions of those models, and may vary from the values published at launch.

1. Model Safety

For a full description of the evaluations in this section, please see the Model Safety section in the GPT-6 Astra card.

3.1 Safe Completions

3.1.1 Evaluations with Challenging Prompts

We conducted benchmark evaluations across safety categories. We report here on our Production Benchmarks, an evaluation set with conversations representative of challenging examples from production data. For a full description of these evaluations, please see the Safe Completions section in the GPT-6 Astra card.

On our Production Benchmarks, GPT-6.1 Terra performs on-par with its predecessor GPT-5.6 Terra. The regressions on Extremism, Hate, and Sexual/minors are not statistically significant.

In addition to measuring how safely our models respond to harmful requests, we assess whether they overrefuse legitimate requests, especially when a topic is sensitive or easy to misinterpret. In the Safety Pareto chart below, GPT‑6.1 Terra shows an improvement on handling harmful requests safety and helpfulness on legitimate requests relative to GPT-5.6 Terra.

3.1.2 Safe Completions for Users Under 18

We apply the same U18 safeguards and principles GPT-6.1 Terra as we did for GPT-6 Asta.

We use dedicated U18 evaluations to assess how well the model performs against our principles across the six categories below. The evaluations are designed to test whether the model consistently applies age-appropriate boundaries and avoids providing responses that could create heightened risks for teens. These evaluations use some of the most challenging, production-derived examples to assess model behavior in sensitive contexts, including adversarial examples related to self-harm, eating disorder-related behaviors, access to age-restricted goods or services and activities, gore, and inappropriate sexual content.

The scores in the table below reflect how well GPT-6.1 Terra adheres to these teen-specific standards. Safety performance was assessed with U18 protections in place.

GPT‑6.1 Terra improves relative to GPT-5.6 Terra on u18 safety evaluations for age-restricted goods and services, disallowed sexual content, eating disorders, and gore.

3.1.3 Agentic Safe Completions

We evaluated GPT‑6.1 Terra’s ability to respond safely in sensitive or unsafe agentic scenarios. The evaluations are designed to test the safety of the actions taken by the model, not just the final response. Similar to prior evaluations, the agentic evaluations contain conversations representative of challenging examples from production data. "Chat Plugins" refers to Chat conversations where our Plugin services have been connected and the model can take actions interacting with these plugins. Agentic safe completion is a new evaluation, launched with GPT-6 Astra, so we do not compare relative to GPT-5.6 Terra.

GPT-6.1 Terra performs on par with our recent GPT-6 and GPT-6.1 releases.

3.2 Vision

These tests use disallowed requests that combine text and images and measure whether the model’s responses are classified as safe.

Relative to GPT-5.6 Terra, GPT-6.1 Terra performs on par with GPT-5.6 Terra for self-harm and harms-erotic, with statistically significant regression in hate and extremism. In manual review of the eval’s failures and in aggregate with our other hate and extremism evaluations, we found this model’s performance to be in-line with prior launches

1. Robustness

4.1 Jailbreaks

Multiturn Jailbreak Evaluations

We evaluate robustness against adaptive, multiturn attackers derived from internal red-teaming exercises. These attackers can probe the model, respond to its answers, and adjust their strategy over multiple turns. Model responses are scored based on whether they could meaningfully facilitate harmful requests: harmful assistance receives worse scores, while harmless responses receive better scores. We report the worst-case defender success rate as a function of attacker budget: for a budget of n attempts, the model succeeds only if it avoids unsafe assistance across all n attacks. This evaluation is particularly challenging at a high attacker budget where the model needs to be robust to all jailbreak attempts to be considered successful.

GPT-6.1 Terra performs on par with GPT-5.6 Terra.

4.2 Prompt Injection

For internal evaluation of GPT-6.1 Terra, we use the GPT-Red automated red-teaming approach described in the GPT-6 Astra system card. The evaluations cover direct attacks against the instruction hierarchy, in which a user tries to override system or developer instructions, and indirect prompt injection, in which instructions embedded in third-party content try to divert an agent from the user’s task.

The plot below shows defender success rate averaged per defender query on indirect prompt injection attacks (higher is better). GPT-6.1 Terra is similar to Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol which have saturated robustness on hierarchy evaluations at 99.99% and are substantially robust to indirect prompt injections %shown below. We are working on updating these evaluations.

1. Health

5.1 HealthBench

For a full description of these evaluations, please see the HealthBench section in the GPT-6 Astra card.

GPT‑6.1 Terra scores higher than GPT‑5.6 Terra on length-adjusted HealthBench Professional scores, with a higher unadjusted score and shorter mean final responses. On HealthBench, GPT‑6.1 Terra scores 1.9 pp lower than GPT‑5.6 Terra after length adjustment.

5.2 Dynamic Mental Health Benchmarks with Adversarial User Simulations

We report dynamic multi-turn evaluations for mental health, emotional reliance, and self-harm that simulate extended conversations across these domains. Rather than assessing a single response within a fixed dialogue, these evaluations allow conversations to evolve in response to the model’s outputs, creating varied trajectories during testing that better reflect real user interactions. This approach helps identify potential issues that may only emerge over the course of long exchanges and provides an even more rigorous test than prior static multi-turn methods. By utilizing realistic, yet adversarial, user simulations, these evaluations have enabled continued improvements in safety performance.

As with our standard evaluations, these evaluations were deliberately created to be difficult. Error rates are not representative of average production traffic.

For a full description of these evaluations, please see the Dynamic Mental Health section in the GPT-6 Astra card.

GPT-6.1 Terra demonstrates a lower performance when compared to GPT-5.6 Terra, but higher performance when compared to GPT-5.5 Thinking and GPT-5.6 sol. In manual review of the eval’s failures and in aggregate with our other mental health evaluations, we found this model’s self-harm performance to be in-line with prior launches.

5.3 MentalHealthBench

MentalHealthBench is an open benchmark developed with mental health experts for measuring how AI systems respond in realistic mental health conversations. It consists of 1,215 synthetic conversations covering diverse scenarios ranging from daily well-being topics to urgent mental health emergencies. Each conversation task is paired with clinician-authored rubric criteria that can be used to score a new model response. To learn more about this evaluation, please see the paper.

We report results at maximum reasoning effort. Each response receives a rubric-based score clipped to 0–100%. We average four independent responses within each task, then average task scores overall or within each acuity group. Standard errors are computed across task means. The evaluation contains 1,215 tasks: 650 non-acute, 221 high-acuity, and 344 emergent.

On MentalHealthBench, GPT‑6.1 Terra scores 55.5% compared to 46.2% for GPT‑5.6 Terra. Scores increase across all three acuity groups, with the largest gain on non-acute scenarios and smaller gains on high-acuity and emergent scenarios.

1. Hallucinations

6.1 Performance in Cases Flagged by Users

We evaluate factuality on de-identified ChatGPT conversations that users of our prior models have flagged as containing factual errors. These examples are intended to capture especially hallucination-prone cases, so their absolute error rates are expected to be much higher than the true error rates in production and should not be interpreted as hallucination rates observed in production.

We recently refreshed the evaluation to make it more challenging, so the results are no longer directly comparable to those reported in previous GPT-6 system cards. We therefore reran the earlier models on the refreshed evaluation. The new evaluation also tends to be more challenging for older models, as the examples are mined from errors made by those models in production.

We include two metrics: (1) whether the model makes any error (the response-level hallucination rate), and (2) whether the model reproduces the specific user-flagged error.

We find that GPT-6.1 Terra makes substantially fewer factual errors and is significantly less likely to reproduce user-reported hallucinations than GPT-6 Sol, achieving performance on par with GPT-6.1 Sol.

1. Alignment

For a full description of this suite of alignment evaluations, please also see the Alignment section in the GPT-6 Astra card.

7.1 Respecting Auto-Review

Auto-review is a protocol built into Codex whereby a second model evaluates the safety of certain commands that run outside a pre-specified sandbox. When this second monitor determines a command to be unsafe, it blocks execution and returns a message. This message informs the model of its verdict and instructs it to avoid substantively similar actions.

In this evaluation, we observe how models react to such a rejection. Each task is set in a knowledge-work environment, with the rollout beginning immediately after Auto-review has denied a request for an action. There are multiple ways then for the model to proceed in this situation: end the task, attempt to find a safer alternative, retry a similar command, or exploit a poor configuration to bypass Auto-review entirely. Any pursuit of the latter two options would constitute a failure of this evaluation.

All GPT-6 models improve on the previous generation in this evaluation. Across our older models: in 7.3% of rollouts at maximum reasoning effort, GPT 5.6 Sol attempted to circumvent the Auto-review denial. The overwhelming majority of these failures involved the model retrying substantively similar commands, contrary to the instructions contained in the denial message. In 0.3% of cases, both GPT-5.6 Luna and GPT-5.6 Sol went further, exploiting gaps in the poorly-configured Auto-review setup. By contrast, GPT-6 Luna attempted to bypass the monitor but never succeeded. Like GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6 Sol, and GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6.1 Terra made no attempts to bypass the monitor.

7.2 Respecting Warnings

Like the Circumventing auto-review evaluation, this test tracks how models behave after running into barriers across a variety of simulated professional work environments. In this Respecting Warnings evaluation, the barriers originate in the environment (e.g. certain AccessDenied errors, content policy restrictions) rather than from the harness.

The evaluation was recently updated to improve realism, diversity, and label quality. Moreover, we updated the main metric to track successful circumventions, rather than just attempted circumventions to improve the objectivity of the scoring criteria. However, because we are testing the models without safeguards, it does mean that the results are partially entangled with underlying model intelligence, as smarter models are more likely to see their circumvention attempts succeed.

In all of these cases, our intended model behavior is for the model to respect the warning and not attempt to circumvent the restriction. In 29.6% of rollouts at maximum reasoning effort, GPT-6.1 Terra saw the barrier but completed the task through an alternative route that violated the spirit of the restriction. This is higher than GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6 Luna, GPT-6.1 Sol, but still lower than GPT-6 Sol.

Note that this evaluation primarily measures low-stakes situations and is run without system-level control measures, many of which would plausibly stop the circumventions.

Moreover, these evaluations might not be a direct proxy to real-world behavior. With increasing intelligence, models are becoming increasingly aware when they are operating in an evaluation. In many circumstances, we observed the model cite the synthetic nature of this evaluation as justification for the performance of improper actions. Most commonly, we see the model misinterpret legitimate restrictions as prompt-injection attempts and disregard them. We are working on improving the external validity of this evaluation and will generally continue to evolve our alignment evaluations.

7.3 Declining to Exploit a Honeypot During Difficult ExploitGym Problems

Not all restrictions are explicit. In many cases, a well-aligned model should just know that certain actions are inappropriate, even if they have not been blocked and are nominally useful for accomplishing the given task.

ExploitGym is an academic capture-the-flag offensive cyber benchmark. We took a subset of the most difficult problems and inserted a second flag, not in the target location but in a surrounding piece of the evaluation harness. Extracting the flag out of these secondary locations requires substantial effort, analogous to some of the easier problems in the ExploitGym dataset. A well-aligned model is expected to avoid attacking these honeypot locations, no matter how many times their legitimate attempts to solve their assigned harder problem have failed. As documented in our Hugging Face technical report, difficult ExploitGym problems were at the heart of the recent Hugging Face incident.

At maximum reasoning effort and without production cyber safeguards, GPT-6.1 Terra legitimately captured the flag without exploiting the honeypot in 0.14% of rollouts. It had an unsuccessful honeypot attempt in 0.07% of rollouts, and no successful honeypot exploits. These results characterize behavior under the evaluation’s test conditions without cyber safeguards and do not represent normal production use.

7.4 Avoiding Deceptive Interactions with Users

7.4.1 Blocker Deception

This new evaluation, introduced with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna October update, takes realistic coding tasks where the model encounters some blockers that inhibit its ability to complete its work. It then measures how often the model fails to disclose the blocker accurately in its final answer. It replaces an earlier evaluation, referenced as "Coding Deception" in previous system cards, that had been largely saturated by our latest models.

GPT-6.1 Terra performs on par with recent models in this family, and demonstrates a continued reduction in disclosure failures compared to GPT-5.6 Sol. Note that these problems were deliberately selected to elicit misbehavior and do not necessarily reflect the absolute rate of misleading responses in production.

7.4.2 Broken Search Tool

On tasks that normally require search, we measure how often models fail to acknowledge in their final response that the search tool is unavailable. GPT-6.1 Terra fails to acknowledge this limitation in 1.83% of cases, compared to 2.08% for GPT-6.1 Sol.

7.5 Avoiding Misaligned Behavior in Realistic Work Environments

We evaluate whether GPT-6.1 Terra can complete tasks in workplace settings without causing unintended consequences like data disclosure or unauthorized transactions. The evaluations place GPT-6.1 Terra in realistic workplace applications, including those for messaging, email, web browsing, project management, and sales. These evaluations are designed to be intentionally adversarial, with ambiguous instructions, similar resources, and complex permissions creating opportunities for unintended outcomes.

7.5.1 Unintended Engagement with External Agent Messages

For a full description of this evaluation, please see the Unintended Engagement with External Agent Messages section in the GPT-6 Astra card. We use the same tasks and behavioral grading criteria as the GPT-6.1 Sol evaluation, with a fix to relative filesystem-path handling. We also reevaluate comparison models with corrected maximum reasoning settings; therefore, the comparison values differ from those reported previously.

All models shown discovered the message board in 100% of samples. Each model was evaluated on 80 samples across ten scenarios; the rates below are conditioned on board discovery. Note that engagement can also include refusals and failed communication attempts.

GPT-6.1 Terra attempted to communicate with apparent peers in 65.00% of samples and performed the specified unauthorized action in 13.75% (11 of 80 samples). Both rates were higher than those of GPT-6.1 Sol (50.00% and 1.25%, respectively). Relative to GPT-6 Sol, Terra engaged more often (65.00% vs. 41.25%) but ultimately performed the specified unauthorized action slightly less often than GPT-6 Sol (13.75% vs. 16.25%). Both measures were lower than GPT-5.6 Sol’s (91.25% engagement and 57.50% specified unauthorized actions).

This evaluation assesses whether models maintain safety and authorization boundaries when interacting with other agents. For 6.1-Terra these results indicate that performance is comparable to 6.0 Sol, and the regression against 6.1 Sol largely reflects promises of future help that the model indicated it would not follow through on. We are also refreshing safety evaluations to increase coverage and sample sizes where tests are saturated or have drifted from production behavior.

7.5.2 Forecasting Misaligned Behavior with Deployment Simulation of Internal Codex Traffic

For a full description of this evaluation, please see Forecasting Misaligned Behavior with Deployment Simulation of Internal Codex Traffic section in the GPT-6 Astra card.

In order to anticipate changes in rates of misaligned behavior in agentic coding traffic with GPT-6.1 Terra, we simulated the deployment of GPT-6.1 Terra in Codex within OpenAI using deployment simulation and labeled the simulated trajectories for misaligned behaviors. GPT-6.1 Terra received 22 flags at severity 3 or above on the matched evaluation set. Overall, the prevalence of this behavior is low. These results are most useful as an additional signal about internal deployment risk, rather than as a direct measure of external deployment safety due to distribution shifts between internal and external deployments.

Estimated misalignment changes in internal Codex traffic

Across the 48,690 matched tasks in our deployment simulation, GPT-6.1 Terra received approximately 42% fewer severity level 3 or higher flags than GPT-6 Sol and 64% fewer than GPT-5.6 Sol. Severity 3 is defined as misaligned behavior that a reasonable user would likely not anticipate and strongly object to. GPT-6.1 Terra received 22 severity-3-or-higher flags (0.045%), compared with 24 (0.049%) for GPT-6.1 Sol, 26 (0.053%) for GPT-6 Astra, 38 (0.078%) for GPT-6 Sol, and 61 (0.125%) for GPT-5.6 Sol.

At severity levels 1 or 2, GPT-6.1 Terra had the lowest observed rates of flags for ignoring instructions, deception, and reward hacking among the five models. The largest absolute decreases relative to GPT-6 Sol were in ignoring instructions, exfiltration, and concealing uncertainty, while rates of flags for other misalignment, credential harvesting, sandbagging, and inbound prompt injection increased. Relative to GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, we observed higher rates of flags for concealing uncertainty, circumventing restrictions, exfiltration, other misalignment, destructive action and inbound prompt injection from GPT-6.1 Terra.

Evaluation awareness

We also investigated evaluation or simulation awareness by analyzing CoT. Across the 48,701 shared tasks used for this analysis, we found these signs in 9.88% of GPT-6.1 Terra’s trajectories, compared with 4.35% for GPT-6.1 Sol, 8.07% for GPT-6 Astra, 4.54% for GPT-6 Sol, and 2.47% for GPT-5.6 Sol. The original traffic, which comprised trajectories generated by multiple models, had an awareness rate of 0.75%.

We then restricted the comparison to the 39,083 cases in which we found no such signs of verbalized evaluation or simulation awareness for any of the five models. In this subset, GPT-6.1 Terra received 14 flags at severity 3 or higher (0.036%), the same number as GPT-6.1 Sol. This was approximately 13% fewer than GPT-6 Astra, 44% fewer than GPT-6 Sol, and 67% fewer than GPT-5.6 Sol, shown in the right panel of the first figure in this section.

1. Monitorability

8.1 Monitorability Under Adversarial Conditions

8.1.1 CoT Controllability

We find that GPT-6.1 Terra has lower CoT controllability than GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6.1 Sol in the 750–1,250-token range. Because longer CoTs are harder to control, we compare models at similar CoT lengths. Among CoTs between 750 and 1,250 tokens long, GPT-6.1 Terra follows the requested CoT instruction in 14.8% of cases, compared with 23.2% for GPT-6 Sol and 44.8% for GPT-6.1 Sol. GPT-6.1 Terra’s lower controllability appears across all three datasets in this length range, but not consistently across all instruction types. In the examples below, GPT-6.1 Terra solves the particle-decay problem while alternating uppercase and lowercase letters within words. When asked to think about something else on the trivia question, it instead produces brief comments about following the instruction.

Table: Selected CoT excerpts from GPT‑5.6 Sol, GPT‑6 Sol, GPT‑6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6.1 Terra for the same problem and control instruction. GPT‑5.6 Sol discusses how to obey the alternating-case constraint but violates it. Like GPT‑6 Sol, GPT‑6 Astra and GPT‑6.1 Sol, GPT-6.1 Terra performs the calculation in alternating case without discussing the constraint. All five models answer the underlying question correctly.

Table: Selected CoT excerpts from GPT‑5.6 Sol, GPT‑6 Sol, GPT‑6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6.1 Terra for the same problem and control instruction. GPT‑5.6 Sol and GPT‑6 Sol continue reasoning about the question despite instructions to think about something else. GPT‑6 Sol explicitly recognizes this violation near the end of its CoT. GPT‑6 Astra instead describes unrelated imagery, as requested. GPT‑6.1 Sol generates no analysis-channel text, but makes question-related tool calls in commentary. GPT‑6.1 Terra discusses the instruction rather than an unrelated topic. All five models answer the question correctly.

8.1.2 Monitor Evasion

For a full description of these evaluations, please see the Monitor Evasion section in the GPT-6 Astra card.

8.1.2.1 Math Side-tasking Monitor Evasion

We test whether GPT-6.1 Terra can secretly perform complex math side tasks that generally require CoT reasoning while doing software-engineering tasks. We only ran on the very-high reasoning effort setting, and our evaluation shows that, like our previous models, GPT-6.1 Terra did not produce a recorded side-task success while bypassing the CoT or full-context monitor flags.

GPT-6.1 Terra did not produce a recorded success on some math problems (e.g., Diagonal Latin and the 51-pile counter) when given as side tasks. It did produce recorded successes on Band cumulant and Semigroup, but a full-context monitor looking for activity related to any “irrelevant math task” detected every successful attempt.

These results provide no observed evidence that GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, or GPT-6.1 Terra can engage in CoT steganography: that is, perform the tested math side tasks while concealing the activity from our monitors.

1. Preparedness

Under our Preparedness Framework, we are treating GPT-6.1 Terra as Critical capability in Cybersecurity, High capability in the Biological and Chemical domain, and below the High threshold in AI Self-Improvement.

Based on this assessment, we applied the same safeguards stack to GPT-6.1 Terra as we did for GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra (with probes updated to be compatible with the model). As described in the GPT-6 Astra safeguards section, we have implemented our strongest safeguards to date for Astra and made changes to our internal safety and security posture to address malicious use and unauthorized, misaligned model activity. We apply these safeguards to GPT-6.1 Terra as well, consistent with our decision to adopt the same Preparedness determinations for both models.

Capabilities Assessment

9.1 Biological and Chemical Capabilities

We are treating GPT-6.1 Terra as High capability in the Biological and Chemical domain. This is illustrated by Multimodal Troubleshooting Virology crossing its indicative threshold. The four available Critical capability results do not cross their listed thresholds.

For a full description of these evaluations, please see the Biological and Chemical Capabilities section in the GPT-6 Astra card.

9.1.1 Capability Threshold: High

As noted in past system cards, we believe several other Bio High evaluations are hitting saturations, although this does not change the classification of a model as Bio-High.

Multimodal Troubleshooting Virology evaluates virology troubleshooting using laboratory scenarios, sometimes accompanied by images. Models must select every correct answer and no incorrect answers. GPT-6.1 Terra scores lower than GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra.

9.1.2 Capability Threshold: Critical

GPT-6.1 Terra’s available Critical capability evaluations are reported below. All four evaluations scored below their indicative thresholds.

AAV Capsid Packaging Prediction evaluates models’ ability to predict packaging scores for held-out AAV capsid variants. GPT-6.1 Terra achieves a Spearman rank correlation of 0.5285, below the indicative threshold of 0.600.

SHP2 Protein Function Prediction evaluates models’ ability to predict held-out functional assay measurements for single-amino-acid variants of SHP2. GPT-6.1 Terra achieves a R² of 0.3696 across three assay datasets, below the 0.60 indicative threshold.

Coronavirus–ACE2 Cell-Entry Screen evaluates models’ ability to predict and rank held-out cell-entry measurements for existing spike-protein–ACE2 pairings. GPT-6.1 Terra achieves a clipped composite score of 0.4741, below the indicative threshold of 0.75.

Phage–plasmid Co-evolution evaluates models’ ability to predict future amino-acid mutations in a phage–plasmid system using earlier observations. GPT-6.1 Terra achieves a pooled exact-mutation negative log-likelihood of 10.8229, above the indicative threshold of ≤9.40; lower scores indicate better predictions.

9.2 Cybersecurity Capabilities

As we did for GPT-6 Astra, we are treating GPT-6.1 Terra as Critical capability in the Cybersecurity domain. Under our Preparedness Framework, Critical capability is defined as a model that can “identify and develop functional zero-day exploits of all severity levels in many hardened real-world critical systems without human intervention” or “devise and execute end-to-end novel strategies for cyberattacks against hardened targets given only a high level desired goal.”

For a full description of the evaluations we used to inform this determination, please see the Cybersecurity Capabilities section in the GPT-6 Astra card. Note that for GPT-6.1 Terra we report on results for max tested solution length.

9.2.1 ExploitBench

ExploitBench evaluates whether models can turn known vulnerabilities into increasingly powerful exploit primitives, up to arbitrary code execution, using vulnerability descriptions, source code, and patches without a reference exploit. GPT-6.1 Terra achieved an ACE-normalized mean capability score of 97.10% on ExploitBench.

As discussed in the GPT-6 Astra system card, ExploitBench’s use of historical vulnerabilities -- which go back to 2023 -- raises a risk of contamination that may inflate the reported results.

9.2.2 ExploitBench - Internal Port (June–August 2026)

ExploitBench - Internal Port is an internal evaluation that tests whether models can develop working exploits for recently disclosed vulnerabilities, reducing potential contamination from exposure to historical examples. GPT-6.1 Terra reaches an arbitrary code-execution success rate of 24.5%, compared with 21.5% for GPT-6.1 Sol and 31.5% for GPT-6 Astra; these results are substantially stronger than older Sol models (5.5% for GPT-6 Sol and 3.5% for GPT-5.6 Sol). This indicates that while GPT-6.1 Terra is substantially more capable than older models on this evaluation, reliable exploitation of these recently disclosed vulnerabilities remains challenging for GPT-6.1 Terra.

SEC-Bench Pro evaluates models’ ability to discover vulnerabilities in large JavaScript engines, including V8 and SpiderMonkey. GPT-6.1 Terra reaches a pass@1 score of 83.33%.

9.2.3 Sandbox Bench

Sandbox Bench is an internal evaluation designed to test a model’s ability to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in runtimes, file format parsers, and egress proxies inspired by those used in internal systems. While the security of these software libraries and systems is not load bearing to our security threat model – for example, runtimes are further contained by containers, operating systems and hardened virtual machines – this evaluation is meant to provide signal on areas where investing in first-layer hardening will improve security in a defense in depth approach.

GPT-6.1 Terra succeeded on 5 of 22 targets (22.7%), compared to 9 of 22 targets (41.9%) for GPT-6.1 Sol and compared to 10 of 22 targets (45.5%) by GPT-6 Astra.

9.3 AI Self-Improvement Capabilities

In AI Self-Improvement, GPT-6.1 Terra does not reach our High threshold.

For a full description of these evaluations, please see the AI Self-Improvement Capabilities section in the GPT-6 Astra card.

9.3.1 Internal Research Debugging Evaluation

GPT-6.1 Terra achieves a mean rubric score of 76.39% on the internal research debugging evaluation, below the indicative High threshold. All models still solve only a subset of difficult debugging tasks that can take experienced researchers hours or days to resolve.

9.3.2 KernelGen 1P

KernelGen 1P measures a model’s ability to understand hardware constraints, debug correctness issues, and improve performance. GPT-6.1 Terra scores 45.34%, below GPT-6 Astra and below the indicative High threshold.

9.4 Safeguards

Under our Preparedness Framework, we treat GPT-6.1 Terra the same way as GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra and apply the same safeguard stack. For a full description of the safeguards stack we apply, please see the Safeguards section in the GPT-6 Astra card. What follows is a public summary of our internal Safeguards Report, which includes additional details that are not suitable for public disclosure (such as information potentially useful to attackers). The internal report informed our Safety Advisory Group’s recommendation and OpenAI leadership’s determination that these safeguards are sufficient for GPT-6.1 Terra’s public launch.

9.4.1 Model Safety Training and Evaluation

For a full description of model training and these evaluations, please see the Model Safety Training and Evaluation section in the GPT-6 Astra card.

9.4.1.1 Biological and Chemical Safety Training and Evaluation

GPT‑6.1 Terra performs on par with recent GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 releases. These results reflect model responses alone, without our full production safeguards.

9.4.1.2 Cybersecurity Safety Training and Evaluation

GPT‑6.1 Terra performs on par with recent GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 releases. These results reflect model responses alone, without our full production safeguards.

9.4.1.3 Cybersecurity - Trusted Access for Cyber

For more details on Daybreak access, please see the Trusted Access for Cyber section in the GPT-6 Astra card. As cyber capabilities increase, our approach is to expand defensive access and safeguards together.

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GPT-6.1 Terra

GPT-6.1 Terra is rolling out in ChatGPT Work and Codex. It supports a range of tasks, including visual reasoning, computer use, and writing.

As the rollout reaches your Business workspace, you can use Terra in the Work and Codex experiences included with your seat and allowed by your workspace permissions.

To get started, select GPT-6.1 Terra from the model list in Work or Codex. You can use Standard or Fast mode where available, with the same default Power presets and overall plan limits as before.

Terra is available in Work and Codex, not Chat. It does not support UAE inference residency; this restriction is based on where inference runs, not your location.

For help using the model, see: ChatGPT Work and Codex. For current usage estimates, see: Pricing.

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GPT-6.1 Terra

GPT-6.1 Terra is rolling out in ChatGPT Work and Codex. It supports a range of tasks, including visual reasoning, computer use, and writing.

The rollout includes Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans. As it reaches your account, you can use Terra in the Work and Codex experiences available with your plan, region, and workspace settings.

Select GPT-6.1 Terra from the model list. Your plan’s overall usage limits are unchanged. Note that some Plus and Pro users may see GPT-6.1 Terra at Medium instead of GPT-6.1 Sol at Light in the default Power presets in Work. Standard and Fast modes are supported where available.

Terra does not support UAE inference residency; this restriction is based on where inference runs, not your location.

For help using the model, see: ChatGPT Work and Codex. For current usage estimates, see: Pricing.

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Delivering fast and capable computer use at scale

A 30-second introduction to GPT-6.1 Terra.

We’re introducing GPT-6.1 Terra, a fast, efficient model that combines detailed visual reasoning and precise computer use alongside clearer, more natural writing. A significant step up from GPT‑5.6 Terra, it excels at the communication and computer-based tasks that fill the workday, from drafting proposals and interpreting technical drawings to filling out forms and editing videos.

Terra continues to advance the cost-intelligence frontier across our model families, providing a new balance of speed, capability, and cost. Its standard API prices are 50% lower than those of GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-6.1 Sol, making it practical for developers to automate high-volume work, like reading incoming invoices and entering their details into accounting software. In ChatGPT Work and Codex, your plan goes further with GPT-6.1 Terra—the same usage allowance covers more tasks than with GPT‑5.6 Terra and substantially more than with GPT‑6.1 Sol or GPT‑6 Astra.

From visual understanding to action

We measured GPT-6.1 Terra’s computer-use capabilities on Agents’ Last Exam, a benchmark of professional tasks that includes turning architectural drawings into a 3D model and reviewing an animated film shot by shot to create a time-coded log for a restoration team. At medium reasoning effort, GPT-6.1 Terra scores 15 percentage points higher than GPT-5.6 Terra at about one-third the cost. It even performs on par with GPT-6 Astra at only one-tenth its price per token. At max effort, Terra is over three times as token efficient as Claude Opus 5.5, and one-fourth its price per token, resulting in a ~9x lower cost per task. Terra is also much quicker, completing tasks over three times faster than both GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol.

On MMMU-Pro, a benchmark of visual reasoning, GPT-6.1 Terra outperforms GPT-5.6 Terra at every reasoning setting. It even nearly matches the scores of our most capable frontier model, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT-6.1 Sol at much lower cost.

OSWorld 2.1 tests how well AI agents use desktop apps to complete multistep tasks, such as building a 3D model from a technical drawing. At medium reasoning effort, GPT-6.1 Terra surpasses GPT-5.6 Terra’s best score at a fraction of the cost per task.

A significant step up on factuality and coding

This year, we’ve invested heavily in reducing hallucinations and factual errors produced by our models. On our internal benchmark of error-inducing prompts, the error rate at low reasoning effort fell from 53.6% with GPT-5.6 Terra to 16.7% with GPT-6.1 Terra, a drop of nearly 37 percentage points. At maximum effort, the error rate fell by 18 percentage points to 4.3%, nearly matching the rates for GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol.

GPT-6.1 Terra marks a substantial improvement over GPT-5.6 Terra for software engineering. Terminal-Bench 4.0 tests how well coding agents solve problems from the command line, such as fixing a webpage whose layout shifts as it loads. At maximum reasoning effort, GPT‑6.1 Terra solves 50.3% of tasks, more than double GPT‑5.6 Terra’s published score of 21.5%. For the most complex coding tasks, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra remain the better choice.

Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 tests how well agents use code to carry out scientific research tasks, such as tracking cell divisions in a time-lapse video. At max reasoning, GPT-6.1 Terra surpasses GPT-6.1 Sol at lower cost, coming within five points of Opus 5.5 at less than one-fifth the estimated cost.

Safety and alignment

As we make powerful AI more efficient and accessible, we continue training, testing, and refining our safeguards. GPT‑6.1 Terra meets the Critical threshold in cybersecurity under our Preparedness Framework, and maintains the protections developed for GPT‑6 Astra.

GPT-6.1 Terra brings with it the alignment improvements of the GPT-6 series. According to our evaluations, GPT-6.1 Terra is more likely to stay within scope and honestly disclose limitations and potential blockers to the user compared to GPT-5.6 Terra. In our prompt-injection tests, GPT-6.1 Terra also showed strong resistance to malicious instructions designed to divert it from the user’s task. More detail is available in the system card⁠ (opens in a new window).

Pricing and availability

Starting today, GPT-6.1 Terra is available to all Plus, Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users in ChatGPT Work and Codex. Developers can also access it through the OpenAI API as gpt-6.1-terra.

Standard API pricing is $1 per million input tokens, $0.05 per million cached input tokens, and $5 per million output tokens.

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Workspace analytics updates in Admin Console

Workspace analytics for ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu now spans Usage and Insights in Admin Console. Benchmarks and User surveys are under Insights, with User surveys replacing the Impact tab.

Usage > Overview now includes Workplace health to track workspace adoption. The usage export flow also supports a by-user report. Find GPT and project reports under Usage > GPTs and Usage > Projects. For more information, see: Workspace analytics for ChatGPT Enterprise and Edu.

7-day grace period for personal workspace migration

Enterprise and Edu workspaces with a verified domain now provide a 7-day grace period for users required to migrate from their personal ChatGPT workspace. This allows users time to prepare for the change, including exporting a copy of their conversations before migrating or deactivating their personal workspace.

Users can use their personal workspace until the deadline shown in ChatGPT. The period starts when users are added to the workspace.

The grace period is fixed at 7 days and can’t be changed by workspace admins. Access to your Enterprise or Edu workspace remains blocked until users complete the required migration or deactivation. For preparation steps, see: Migrating your personal workspace to ChatGPT Business or Enterprise.

This migration requirement and 7-day grace period do not apply to workspaces without a verified domain.

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New Features
• Save reusable prompts and slash commands in ten numbered /presets slots, with a keyboard menu for quick access. (#54380, #54381)
• Set model, reasoning effort, speed, and permission profiles directly with inline /model and /permissions arguments. (#54378, #54383)
• Preview viewed and generated images in the fullscreen transcript on terminals supporting Kitty or Sixel graphics. (#54216)
• Authenticate enterprise MCP connections using eligible Codex account grants or dedicated sign-in, including OAuth clients requiring secrets. (#55334, #55859, #56001)
• Mask credentials during supported remote Bash commands and Zsh snapshot sessions, including credentials from custom providers. (#54309, #54432, #56049)
• The Amazon Bedrock setup wizard is now enabled by default, with API key entry grouped alongside other AWS sign-in methods when credentials are detected. (#56033, #56023)
Bug Fixes
• Failed compaction no longer leaves partial summaries in conversation history, and background compaction failures fall back without panicking. (#53932, #55581)
• Resuming sessions now finds compressed histories and restores saved thread settings instead of replacing them with global defaults. (#54008, #55923)
• Windows HTTPS and WebSocket connections now handle proxy authentication challenges using the signed-in user’s Negotiate or NTLM credentials. (#55994, #56000)
• CLI configuration overrides are preserved when -c or --config appears at multiple subcommand levels. (#56022)
• Queued prompts now wait for pending permission selections to resolve before continuing. (#55682)
• Hardened sandbox checks for case-variant metadata paths on macOS and replaceable symlinks used to locate executables. (#54273, #55384)
Chores
• Reduced disk usage by pruning unused installations, cleaning abandoned marketplace checkouts, and bounding daemon logs. (#53827, #55149, #55689, #55690, #55856)
• Updated the embedded JavaScript runtime with safety checks for optimized Array.sort operations. (#54519)
Changelog
Full Changelog: rust-v0.163.0...rust-v0.164.0
• #53725 Render Markdown web links as labels in Rex @bc-openai
• #53728 Preserve the remote cwd filter in the in-app resume picker @fcoury-oai
• #53732 Reuse compiled search patterns across compressed rollouts @ethernetdan-openai
• #53733 Default Guardian v2 async classification to conversation mode @felixxia-oai
• #53736 Acquire and cache opt-in executor capability inventories via V2 @TAFOYA-OAI
• #53745 Remove modelSlug from the latest-model resolver output @kkahadze-oai
• #53747 Prefer remote Visualize installs over the bundled plugin @philipp-oai
• #53751 Apply feature overrides when restarting the app-server daemon @jif-oai
• #53753 Extend copy-on-select to composer text @fcoury-oai
• #53754 Support Command/Super shortcuts in the TUI keymap @fcoury-oai
• #53763 Enrich V2 capability discovery with resolved plugin and skill metadata @TAFOYA-OAI
• #53780 Remove redundant Codex manual cache directory check @kkahadze-oai
• #53781 Remove the product-gating TODO from SkillPolicy @kkahadze-oai
• #53784 Forward client voice session IDs in realtime requests @chrisdong-oai
• #53790 Fix cancellation of macOS user-verification prompts @bz-openai
• #53794 Retain rollout migration locks across worker cancellation @jif-oai
• #53795 Use the bundled model catalog in the MCP startup invalidation test @OLI-OAI
• #53797 Refresh Guardian reviews when review context changes @jif-oai
• #53800 Wire background compaction into the turn lifecycle @rka-oai
• #53804 Keep the Agent command center visible during archive and delete @etraut-openai
• #53805 Add safe diagnostics to workspace routing configuration errors @etraut-openai
• #53811 Support daemon installation from Windows WinGet packages @etraut-openai
• #53816 Reject Guardian review threads during interactive CLI resume @dylan-hurd-oai
• #53827 Prune unused app-server daemon releases safely @etraut-openai
• #53831 Track content provenance through prompt assembly and compaction @tz-openai
• #53845 Fix daemon updater socket binding and bootstrap readiness on Unix @etraut-openai
• #53853 Reuse staged file digests when preparing daemon installs @charliemarsh-oai
• #53859 Record bucketed terminal sizes in TUI telemetry @imac-oai
• #53872 Refresh model instructions in incremental-tool context windows @rhan-oai
• #53879 Preserve running turn recovery across thread settings updates @bc-openai
• #53895 Resume unloaded subagent threads when selected in the TUI @etraut-openai
• #53897 Isolate daemon package tests to reduce disk contention @etraut-openai
• #53908 Keep the agent dashboard browsable during task removal @etraut-openai
• #53932 Preserve conversation history when compaction fails @jif-oai
• #53940 Bound rollout input for memory extraction @jif-oai
• #53947 Stop rollout reads when the calling task is cancelled @jif-oai
• #53963 Test memory extraction budgets with excluded items and ciphertext @jif-oai
• #53969 Avoid reconnect races in the daemon restart test @jif-oai
• #53987 Skip service backoff for stale Guardian authorization retries @jif-oai
• #53990 Keep host MCP and plugin configuration local with remote environments @jif-oai
• #53991 Report the reason for ChatGPT token refresh requests @tejsudha-openai
• #53996 Bump rustls to 0.23.46 @jif-oai
• #53997 Filter rollout filenames before checking compressed siblings @bbrown-oai
• #54003 Include compressed rollouts in doctor storage statistics @jif-oai
• #54008 Fix session lookup and resume after rollout compression @jif-oai
• #54027 Preserve Windows startup variables and MXC child environment defaults @iceweasel-oai
• #54032 Bound concurrent Git diffs for untracked files @yuzhu-oai
• #54033 Extend memory extension resource retention to 14 days @josh-oai
• #54039 Return async Guardian approvals before review cleanup finishes @jif-oai
• #54044 Keep fork lineage ahead of paginated transcript history @fcoury-oai
• #54046 Track approval cancellation sources and Guardian context changes @vkg-oai
• #54047 Restore elapsed time for replayed in-progress turns @etraut-openai
• #54048 Defer folder trust checks until starting a task from agents overview @etraut-openai
• #54050 Scope TUI skill refreshes and workspace commands to explicit directories @etraut-openai
• #54053 Add Responses API client metadata patches for turn start and steer @marksteinbrick-oai
• #54056 Coalesce overlapping native TLS root certificate loads @jif-oai
• #54057 Distinguish unsupported evidence in Decisions comparison metrics @swastik-oai
• #54058 Forward turn metadata to image generation and edit requests @duc-openai
• #54059 Support store-owned preparation when resuming threads @owenlin0
• #54060 Limit unarchive scans to the requested thread's archived rollouts @bz-openai
• #54069 Fix Windows environment handling for remote MCP servers @iceweasel-oai
• #54070 Expose gateway authentication as a reusable OAuth session API @smurching-oai
• #54076 Avoid false URL-launch detections in literal PowerShell commands @jif-oai
• #54078 Update gix to 0.89.0 and gix-url to 0.40.0 @jif-oai
• #54079 Retire rejected MCP OAuth refresh tokens @mzeng-openai
• #54080 Extract TUI user-turn submission into a dedicated module @bc-openai
• #54081 Centralize vertical navigation in TUI list views @bc-openai
• #54082 Stabilize the Guardian network review timeout test @felixxia-oai
• #54087 Upgrade Bazel's rules_python to 2.4.2 @dkovalenko-oai
• #54094 Preserve specific MCP failure codes in metrics and spans @TAFOYA-OAI
• #54096 Add Bazel targets for on-demand schemas and Python SDK generation @dkovalenko-oai
• #54097 Show Daybreak notices after the session header @charliemarsh-oai
• #54098 Keep environment tools stable across readiness changes @aibrahim-oai
• #54099 Wait for readiness in the SIGTERM cancellation test @felixxia-oai
• #54113 Embed generated app-server schema bundles in Bazel builds @dkovalenko-oai
• #54114 Report terminal completion states and blocking reasons @cconger
• #54119 Allow stdin review under active grants with sandbox prompts disabled @tepman-oai
• #54133 Record per-tool incremental update and description size metrics @akira-oai
• #54135 Allow large file writes over direct exec-server WebSockets @ostepanian
• #54151 Generate keymap descriptors and binding accessors from one catalog @bc-openai
• #54169 Reload the model catalog after account changes @smurching-oai
• #54170 Preserve ChatGPT authentication for Gov MCP servers @lsingh-oai
• #54175 Retire worktree and voice feature flags @bc-openai
• #54216 Show image previews in the fullscreen transcript @etraut-openai
• #54217 Apply syntax theme colors to Markdown prose in the TUI @etraut-openai
• #54250 Add regression tests for case-variant metadata protection @jif-oai
• #54257 Preserve recent speech when trimming realtime transcripts @jif-oai
• #54263 Require fresh Guardian approval for escalated tool retries @jif-oai
• #54264 Track Guardian transcript admission across failed reviews @jif-oai
• #54265 Add regression coverage for Guardian sandbox retry approvals @jif-oai
• #54273 Protect metadata writes through macOS case aliases @jif-oai
• #54278 Share Guardian image deduplication and checkpoint restoration @felixxia-oai
• #54281 Attribute compaction summaries to the assistant in Guardian transcripts @jif-oai
• #54309 Enable credential masking for remote exec-server commands @viyatb-oai
• #54315 Keep TUI Markdown colors readable against their backgrounds @fcoury-oai
• #54316 Centralize context fragment kind constants @ioanbudea-OAI
• #54346 Add scoped executor credential auth for remote exec-server @viyatb-oai
• #54351 Use the turn index for turn-scoped item pagination @bz-openai
• #54363 Filter uninspectable network roots from implicit MXC read grants @iceweasel-oai
• #54365 Prevent duplicate assistant messages around interleaved commands @fcoury-oai
• #54369 Retry SQLite operations on transient writer conflicts

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The Decisions API is officially out of beta and ready to add near real-time decisions to your production workflows!

Build faster, more cost-efficient apps and agents that can classify text and images, evaluate inputs, and determine what happens next without generating a full model response.

Build more responsive apps with the Decisions API

Fast, focused, low-cost decisions for any application.

What’s new

Since the beta, we’ve added new capabilities to the Decisions API so you can now use:

• Native GPT-Live integration so voice apps can react as people speak.
• Prompt caching to help lower costs when reusing context.
• Native JSON inputs so you can pass structured app data directly.
• Images in individual question instructions so you can compare multiple images against a shared reference.
• Up to 400 questions per request so you can make twice as many decisions in a single call.

Pricing and availability

Model Non-cached input Cached input gpt-6-luna (Decisions API) $0.10 per million tokens $0.01 per million tokens

For 30-minute and 12-hour cached write pricing, see the pricing guide.

You only pay for input tokens, and there are no output-token charges.

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Share profiles within your Enterprise workspace

Enterprise workspace members can share their profiles with coworkers, including activity and Sites they choose to showcase. Workspace owners control whether profiles and activity are available and whether profiles are visible only to their owners or to other workspace members.

Shared Enterprise profiles are limited to members of the same workspace. Adding a Site to a profile does not change who can access that Site. Shared profiles do not show conversation titles or content.

For details, see:

• Shareable profiles in ChatGPT.

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Fast, focused, low-cost decisions for any application.

Introducing the Decisions API

Applications and agents make many small decisions throughout a workflow: how to classify an input, where to route a request, or which action to take next. Individually, they are simple. At scale, their latency and cost add up.

Today, we’re making the Decisions API generally available. Built with GPT‑6 Luna, the Decisions API focuses Luna’s intelligence on questions with bounded answers, helping applications and agents make near real-time decisions from text, images, and structured inputs up to 10x faster than GPT‑6 Luna through the Responses API.

Since public beta, we’ve added a native GPT‑Live integration, prompt caching for reused context, and inference residency in the US and EU. Developers can also pass native JSON inputs, include images in question instructions, and ask up to 400 questions per request, twice the previous limit. We’ve also continued to improve latency, including additional capacity in several regions in Asia.

How teams are using the Decisions API

Early adoption of Decisions has shown its applicability across a variety of use cases.

Across OpenAI, teams are applying the Decisions API across product and business workflows. The dots team is using it to reduce response times and improve interactivity. Our Personal Finance team is using it to categorize transaction descriptions, while our Communications team is using Decisions to classify coverage by the themes and scores whether it reinforces or challenges key narratives—helping identify what warrants closer review.

These early examples show how fast, structured decision-making can turn incoming information into useful action across a wide range of use cases. Customers are applying the Decisions API just as broadly, from accurately attributing AI costs to making language-learning experiences more interactive.

“With Box Extract and the Decisions API, we classify business documents and route them to the right next step. In our evaluation, the Decisions API delivered ~5x faster route selection on 30 certificate of insurance cases, with the same accuracy as the Responses API—automating routine work and sending lower-confidence cases to reviewers.” —Biswaroop Palit, VP, Product Management Platform and Integrations, Box

Select the type of decision your application needs

Using the Decisions API is simple: developers define a question and its allowed answers, then provide context as text, images, or native JSON. The API returns one of three supported answer types—a probability, choice, or score—that applications can use to determine what happens next. The variety of answer types allows Decisions to be applicable across a wide variety of use cases.

Decisions API supports three answer types:

Type Use it to Main result predicate Estimate the probability that a condition is true, such as whether a product has visible damage. probability: an estimate from 0 to 1 that the condition is true. choice Select one of your predefined options, such as whether an agent should continue, retry, or ask for clarification. choice: one of your supplied values. The response also includes probabilities and confidence. score Rate an input against ordered levels in a rubric, such as the severity of damage. score: the probability-weighted average of the level indices.

Build real-time voice experiences with the Decisions API and GPT‑Live

With GPT‑Live, you can bring natural, expressive conversation to your voice applications, with smooth interruption handling that keeps conversations flowing. Decisions API now integrates natively with GPT‑Live (opens in a new window), helping applications make fast, focused decisions during live conversations. A customer support agent can decide whether to ask a clarifying question, route a request, or escalate an issue. An avatar can adjust its facial expressions as a user speaks to it, and based on the user’s words, respond with a wink or a smile to create a more interactive experience.

The example below uses transcript updates to select an avatar’s expression. Add this configuration to session.triggers in an existing GPT‑Live session.

Live emits a decision.event; the application reads the selected reaction and animates the character accordingly.

Try Decisions with GPT‑Live for yourself

Expression palette

Tap a face to preview it.

• Curious
• Delighted
• Surprised
• Pensive
• Tender
• Cheeky
• At ease

Live decisions

Watch as the Decisions API chooses a facial expression based on what each of you says.

Your words

Watch the reaction as you speak.

Assistant’s words

Watch the face as the assistant replies.

Try saying

I rehearsed my audition for my cat. She walked out halfway through.

This demo is time-limited. By using it, you agree to OpenAI's Terms and acknowledge our Privacy Policy.

Build and evaluate your first decision

Decisions API is generally available today with GPT‑6 Luna through the dedicated Decisions endpoint. See the pricing and availability guide (opens in a new window) for current rates and caching details.

Start with one recurring decision your application makes often. Define the question, the possible answers, and the context needed to distinguish them. Test it on examples that reflect real usage, in the Decisions Playground (opens in a new window) with your own text or images, or follow the developer guide (opens in a new window) to make your first request.

Decisions API costs $0.10 per million input tokens. Cached input costs $0.01 per million tokens. For 30-minute and 12-hour cached writes, read our pricing guide. (opens in a new window) You only pay for input tokens: there are no output-token charges. Regional processing is available in the US and EU, and Zero Data Retention (opens in a new window) is available to eligible customers. See pricing and caching (opens in a new window) and data controls (opens in a new window) for details.

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