GPT-5.5
Explore benchmark scores, genre strengths, weaknesses, and recent examples for GPT-5.5 on Orivel.
Model Overview
Released
2026-04-23
Context
1M tokens
Input
$5.00 / 1M
Output
$30.00 / 1M
Max output
128k tokens
Retired from new comparisons on September 9, 2026. Past results stay readable. It was retired not because a newer model arrived but because GPT-5.6 became both cheaper and stronger after the August 2026 price cut, leaving nothing GPT-5.5 was the right answer to. Released April 23, 2026, GPT-5.5 was OpenAI's flagship until GPT-5.6 (Sol) took over on July 9, 2026; on Orivel it is now the balanced OpenAI option. It is tuned for agentic work: long-horizon coding, computer use, web research and tool-chained task execution. A higher-accuracy gpt-5.5-pro variant exists at premium pricing; Orivel uses the standard gpt-5.5 only.
Benchmarks
| Measure | GPT-5.5 | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Tau2-bench Telecom | 98.0% | without prompt tuning |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 82.7% | |
| OSWorld-Verified | 78.7% | |
| Expert-SWE | 73.1% | 20-hour coding tasks |
| SWE-Bench Pro | 58.6% | end-to-end in a single pass |
Specs and pricing
| Item | GPT-5.5 |
|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens, via the Responses and Chat Completions APIs |
| Max output | 128k tokens |
| Input / 1M | $5 |
| Output / 1M | $30 — about double GPT-5.4's output rate |
Is there still a reason to pick it?
We keep this page because the historical comparisons are worth reading, but we would not start new work here. GPT-5.6 costs exactly the same and is ahead on every measure we track, so the only reason to stay is an existing integration that is expensive to touch.
Where GPT-5.5 still earns its keep is as a reference point. It was the flagship for two and a half months and appears in a large share of the comparisons on this site, which makes it the most useful yardstick we have for judging how much a newer model has actually moved.
Retirement notes
- Released April 23, 2026 as the successor to GPT-5.4
- Focus area: agentic coding and long-horizon task execution
- SWE-Bench Pro 58.6% — stronger end-to-end single-pass software engineering
- Expert-SWE 73.1% on tasks with ~20-hour human completion time
- Terminal-Bench 2.0 82.7%, OSWorld-Verified 78.7%, Tau2-bench Telecom 98.0%, GDPval 84.9%
- 1M-token context in the API (400K via Codex); 128k max output
- Pricing: $5 input / $30 output per 1M tokens — roughly 2× GPT-5.4's output rate
- Batch/Flex at 50% of standard; Priority at 2.5× standard
- Knowledge cutoff unchanged from GPT-5.4
Specs across the current lineup
Published specs and pricing, comparable before any benchmark data exists.
| Model | Context | Max output | Input / 1M | Output / 1M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| openai GPT-6 Astra | — | 128k | $10.00 | $50.00 |
| google Gemini 3.8 Flash | — | 66k | $0.75 | $3.75 |
| anthropic Claude Fable 5.1 | 1M | 128k | $10.00 | $50.00 |
| google Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | — | 66k | $0.30 | $2.50 |
| openai GPT-5.6 | 1M | 128k | $4.00 | $20.00 |
| anthropic Claude Opus 5 | 1M | 128k | $5.00 | $25.00 |
| openai GPT-5 mini | 400k | 128k | $0.25 | $2.00 |
| google Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite | — | 66k | $0.25 | $1.50 |
| anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 | 1M | 128k | $2.00 | $10.00 |
Overall Performance
Overall Rank
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Overall win rate
Average Score
Wins
35
Sample Count
64
Win Rate by Model
Compare by Genre
Strong Genres
Coding
Win Rate
Sample Count
2
Genre Rank
7 / 16
Wins
1
Counseling
Win Rate
Sample Count
2
Genre Rank
1 / 17
Wins
2
Planning
Win Rate
Sample Count
5
Genre Rank
5 / 15
Wins
4
Creative Writing
Win Rate
Sample Count
1
Genre Rank
4 / 16
Wins
1
Brainstorming
Win Rate
Sample Count
3
Genre Rank
2 / 15
Wins
3
Weaker Genres
Roleplay
Win Rate
Sample Count
2
Genre Rank
14 / 16
Wins
0
Business Writing
Win Rate
Sample Count
2
Genre Rank
15 / 17
Wins
0
Persuasion
Win Rate
Sample Count
1
Genre Rank
15 / 17
Wins
0
Analysis
Win Rate
Sample Count
2
Genre Rank
14 / 17
Wins
1
Idea Generation
Win Rate
Sample Count
2
Genre Rank
9 / 16
Wins
1
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Average score by criterion (out of 10)
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