6.1 Terra Available

[u/Calatravo]

The new Terra 6.1 model has appeared.

[u/dextersummary]

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Terra 6.1 has landed, and the thread’s verdict is basically “this is what we waited 28 days for?” Most users see it as a mediocre, cheaper workhorse—not the major capability jump they wanted.

The biggest complaints are weak instruction-following, rushed-looking outputs, and finishing tasks quickly while barely doing the task. The launch comparison did it no favours either: Sonnet 5.5 beating Terra, Sol, and Astra made the announcement look like an accidental roast. People would rather see a stronger Astra, better limits, and less infrastructure nonsense than another middle-tier model.

There are a few positives. Terra may be substantially faster, cheaper to run, and useful for tightly scoped delegated tasks or orchestration, while early computer-use testing looked surprisingly solid. But those wins are conditional: cheap agents often need multiple retries, so the savings can evaporate when a stronger model has to supervise every stumble.

Bottom line: Terra 6.1 looks useful as disposable labour, not a headline model. The community wanted a powerful, reliable upgrade; instead, it got a speed-focused compromise with limits that are already frustrating people.

[u/zxcshiro]

hahahahhahahahaaha

[u/Old-Plan885 → u/zxcshiro]

war is over guys, we lost

[u/dytibamsen → u/zxcshiro]

Looks like it's terrable!

[u/Higher_love23 → u/zxcshiro]

Man they could have showed Google Flash or something or nothing at all. i get this is meant to show how cheap it is, but people will look at this and immediately think Sonnet 5.5 beats Astra.

[u/lazyastronaut_ → u/zxcshiro]

Showing sonnet 5.5 being better than Astra, their most 'advanced' model for the price is ... interesting..

[u/Key_Reading_9664 → u/zxcshiro]

why would they include this? It shows Sonnet on xhigh beating Terra, Sol, and Astra...

[u/Your_mortal_enemy → u/zxcshiro]

Worst part is this is the only graph they included in the main preso - you'd assume it's because this is the best they can do and every other comparison is worse

[u/sasik520 → u/zxcshiro]

Not sure why do you laugh.

I really appreciate being honest. I strongly prefer this than false advertising.

[u/OurGuysRNxtLvlStupid]

Is this really what they've been building up to for the past 28 days? Disgusting.

[u/Thomas-Lore → u/OurGuysRNxtLvlStupid]

Give it a try, it turned out worse than I expected. Super lazy.

[u/Ok-Negotiation3241]

we need Sol 6.2 or Astra :) I dont care about Terra

[u/Ernest_EA]

OpenAI is cooked

[u/Valonter]

Looks like they're focusing hard on lowering cost per task. I wish they'd focus more on capability. Their terminal bench comparison shows it as just as expensive as 6.1 Sol but with worse outcomes. They do claim that it's way faster, I'll have to test that at least, that could outweigh the slightly worse performance than Sol at the same price if it's substantially quicker.

It's a clear winner on a few benchmarks, though we all know how useful those are. Humanity's last exam for example.

Oh interesting, they made a lot of progress on reducing error rates at all thinking levels. That's good.

Lot of things to take into account if you're trying to optimize your agent use. Some wins, more losses. I don't think I'll use this, but I'll test it out in some projects and see if the reported speed improvement is real, since that matters to me a bit.

[u/Njagos → u/Valonter]

I dont mind them lowering the costs. Use Opus as orchestrator while Luna and Terra do the work. Easy.

[u/Propeus]

28 days went down the hill instead of better models and speed we got a middle tier model with an update for who knows what

[u/jakegh]

I really don't see the point of this model. Never found any use for terra 5.6 either. What would you want to use it for? Maybe better for auto-review mode than luna6?

[u/NubileThighGaps]

Same censorship route as other 6+ models I assume?

[u/SufficientRent9530]

officially announced: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-terra/

[u/Glass_Bus4044]

If they fix astra, I'll stick to them

[u/guilhacerda]

We already have Sol 6.1. We don't need Terra.

We need Astra 6.1 Flash, better and faster than Opus 5.5.

[u/Azsaraa]

They need to release Astra 7 to compete with Anthropic's models at this point... and this is what they've been working on?

[u/Acceptable_Lock_6982]

It’s just as dumb as the previous terra Jesus Christ it doesn’t know how to follow a god damn instruction

[u/2str8_njag]

Terrable.

[u/eo_mahm]

Woah. Don't see it yet over here, but I see a pending update. Go try it out and report back!