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GPT-5.5

OpenAI · released Apr 24, 2026

ProprietaryReasoningTool useStructured outputVision

GPT-5.5 is OpenAI’s frontier model designed for complex professional workloads, building on GPT-5.4 with stronger reasoning, higher reliability, and improved token efficiency on hard tasks. It features a 1M+ token...

Specification

Context window
1.05M
Max output
128K
Knowledge cutoff
Dec 1, 2025
Parameters
Undisclosed
Licence
Proprietary
Serving providers
3
Moderated
Yes
Uptime
99.9%

Intelligence

56.3

98th percentile

Coding

74.9

Coding Index

Agentic

47.4

Agentic Index

Output speed

85 t/s

Median across providers

Latency

2.19s

Time to first token

Cost per task

$2.65

Estimated

Benchmarks

Where the score comes from

The Intelligence Index is a composite. These are the underlying evaluations this model was actually measured on.

Evaluation scores

Percentage correct · higher is better

  • τ²-bench (Telecom)
    93.9%
  • GPQA Diamond
    93.5%
  • AA-LCR (long context)
    79.0%
  • IFBench
    75.9%
  • Terminal-Bench Hard
    60.6%
  • SciCode
    56.1%
  • Humanity's Last Exam
    45.8%

An evaluation missing from this list was not run for this model — it is not a zero.

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EvaluationScore
τ²-bench (Telecom)93.9%
GPQA Diamond93.5%
AA-LCR (long context)79.0%
IFBench75.9%
Terminal-Bench Hard60.6%
SciCode56.1%
Humanity's Last Exam45.8%

Against its peers

Intelligence Index · this model highlighted, nearest peers in grey

Peers are the models sitting closest on the Intelligence Index — the set you would realistically choose between.

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ModelIntelligence
Qwen3.8 Max58.1
Claude Opus 4.857.3
Muse Spark 1.256.8
GPT-5.6 Terra56.6
GPT-5.556.3
Grok 4.555.8
Claude Sonnet 555.3
Claude Opus 4.755.0

Percentile among all indexed models

Intelligence98th
Coding95th
Agentic84th
Terminal work98th
Arena Elo97th

Pricing

What it costs to run

List prices per million tokens, plus what one representative task works out to.

List price

Input / 1M tokens
$5
Output / 1M tokens
$30
Cached input / 1M
$0.5
Blended 3:1
$11.25

One task, estimated

$2.65

Input tokens
50,000
Output tokens
80,000
Profile
Reasoning

Estimated from list pricing: 50K input tokens plus 80K output tokens for reasoning models (25K for non-reasoning).

Serving providers

Speed and latency figures are medians across these providers, so a widely-served model reports a blend rather than any single endpoint.

Arena

Head-to-head generation quality

Elo from pairwise judgements, broken out by the kind of thing the model was asked to build.

Overall Elo
1,336
Win rate
60.7%
Strongest at
Game development
Tournaments
3,578

Elo by category

Dot position on a 1,125–1,350 scale · Elo has no meaningful zero

Agent categories (full-stack apps, mobile apps) are only scored for models tested in agent harnesses.

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CategoryEloWin rate
Game development133660.7%
UI components129256.3%
Data visualisation128356.6%
Websites128055.1%
SVG127858.1%
3D scenes125052.0%
Mobile apps120951.7%
Full-stack apps112843.2%