GPT-5 Nano vs GPT-6 Luna
GPT-6 Luna: 69.7% average across five Vision Evals tasks (#22 of 65 models). We have not run GPT-5 Nano through Roboflow's Vision Evals, so there is no head-to-head score. Run both on your own image below.
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GPT-5 Nano vs GPT-6 Luna Comparison Table
Evals updated October 26, 2026Pricing updated November 2, 2026
| Property | GPT-5 Nano | GPT-6 Luna |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Aug 2025 | Sep 2026 |
| Context Window | 400K | 1.1M |
| Parameters | Unknown | Unknown |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Commercial use | commercial use per vendor terms | commercial use per vendor terms |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $0.050 | $0.100 |
| Output $/1M | $0.400 | $0.500 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Promptable Concept Segmentation | Not listed | Demo |
| Model Features | ||
Both support 3 more features | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort | ||
| Overall | Not evaluated | 69.7% |
| Avg cost / sample | – | $0.0004 |
| Avg speed / sample | – | 10.21s |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection (low) | – | 65.5% ±0.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 65.2 to 66.0 |
| Object Detection (high) | – | 68.0% ±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 67.3 to 68.6 |
| Counting (low) | – | 71.6% ±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 71.6 to 71.6 |
| Counting (high) | – | 72.1% ±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 71.6 to 73.0 |
| Identification (low) | – | 87.5% ±3.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 84.4 to 90.6 |
| Identification (high) | – | 87.5% ±3.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 84.4 to 90.6 |
| OCR (low) | – | 59.8% |
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| OCR (high) | – | 62.5% |
| by category |
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| Reasoning (low) | – | 64.2% ±3.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 60.3 to 66.2 |
| Reasoning (high) | – | 71.1% ±2.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 68.2 to 72.8 |
GPT-5 Nano vs GPT-6 Luna: Overview
GPT-5 Nano, released by OpenAI on August 7, 2025, is the smallest and most cost-efficient model in the GPT-5 family. Like its larger counterparts, it is multimodal—accepting text and images, supporting tool use, structured outputs, and reasoning—but it is optimized for speed, low latency, and affordability. It features input and output token limits of roughly 272K and 128K tokens respectively, enabling large-context processing even at its compact scale. Its knowledge cutoff is around May 2024, slightly earlier than the full GPT-5 model.
GPT-5 Nano is well-suited for high-volume or cost-sensitive deployments such as mobile apps, embedded AI systems, or rapid-response APIs. While it offers less depth on complex reasoning and coding tasks compared to GPT-5 Mini or Pro, it retains core multimodal and agentic capabilities, making it an attractive option where efficiency and scale matter more than maximum performance.
GPT-6 Luna is the fast, cost-efficient tier of OpenAI's GPT-6 model family, sitting below GPT-6 Sol and the larger GPT-6 Astra model that opened the generation. It is a proprietary multimodal transformer that accepts text and image input and returns text, and it exposes an adjustable reasoning effort setting so the same model can run in a low-latency mode or spend additional inference compute on harder problems. OpenAI positions it for high-volume and latency-sensitive workloads such as conversational assistants, classification, and lightweight agentic pipelines, while noting that at higher reasoning effort it handles software engineering and computer-use tasks that previously required a Sol-tier model.
The model supports a context window of roughly 1,050,000 input tokens with a maximum output of 128,000 tokens, which allows long documents, extended agent traces, and large code repositories to be processed in a single request. OpenAI describes the GPT-6 generation as improving factual reliability and adopting a more concise communication style relative to the GPT-5.6 series, and attributes the efficiency of the Sol and Luna tiers to gains in caching and inference rather than to reduced capability. Architecture details, parameter counts, and training data are not published.