Model comparison

GPT-5.5 vs GPT-5 Pro

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 46.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #9 Confirmed

GPT-5 Pro OpenAI

46.4

Rank #64 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.5 scores higher in 4 categories and GPT-5 Pro in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.5 leads 72.8 to 38.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 85% for GPT-5.5 and 18.3% for GPT-5 Pro.
  • GPT-5.5 is cheaper at $5 / $30 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $120 for GPT-5 Pro.
  • GPT-5.5 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 400K.

Side by side

GPT-5.5 and GPT-5 Pro specifications
GPT-5.5GPT-5 Pro
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index63.446.4
Released2026-04-232025-10-06
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M400K
Max output128K272K
Input $ / M tokens$5$15
Output $ / M tokens$30$120
Results tracked7112

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 58.2 (#17), GPT-5 Pro: 44.0 (#80)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5GPT-5 Pro
WeirdML84.9%60.4%
SWE-bench Verified80.6%—
DeepSWE67%—
FrontierCode43%—
LMArena WebDev1513—
SciCode56.1%—
GSO40.2%—
LMArena Coding1494—
MirrorCode10%—
ALE-Bench1,943—
AlgoTune—1.31

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6), GPT-5 Pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5GPT-5 Pro
Terminal-Bench84.7%—
APEX-Agents55.1%—
OSWorld 2.013%—
Remote Labor Index6.3%—
τ²-bench Banking44.6%—
DeepResearch Bench54%—
PostTrainBench27.2%—
ExploitBench47.4%—
GBAEval53.2%—
GDP.pdf26%—
LMArena Search1242—
Vending-Bench 27,524—

Reasoning GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#11), GPT-5 Pro: 38.9 (#62)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5GPT-5 Pro
ARC-AGI-285%18.3%
SimpleBench69%61.6%
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%76.8%
ARC-AGI-195%70.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index159.1150.28
NYT Connections (extended)96.2%—
CritPt27.1%—
Chess Puzzles54%—
EnigmaEval—18.8%
EBR-Bench34.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1489—
Mystery Game Puzzles56%—
DTBench96%—
LMCA54.3%—
Surface Evolver Bench88.1%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
ForecastBench60.6—

Math GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 81.7 (#11), GPT-5 Pro: 48.5 (#63)

Knowledge GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#17), GPT-5 Pro: 56.7 (#42)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5GPT-5 Pro
GPQA Diamond94%—
Humanity's Last Exam—31.6%
SimpleQA Verified63%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—
LMArena Expert1508—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 46.9 (#12), GPT-5 Pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5GPT-5 Pro
LMArena Vision1297—
Blueprint-Bench 236.2%—
Furniture Assembly44.2%—
LMArena Document1486—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 56.4 (#20), GPT-5 Pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5GPT-5 Pro
LMArena Non-English1467—
LMArena Chinese1533—
LMArena French1486—
LMArena German1480—
LMArena Japanese1498—
LMArena Korean1460—
LMArena Russian1473—
LMArena Spanish1468—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 77.5 (#18), GPT-5 Pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5GPT-5 Pro
LMArena Instruction Following1479—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12), GPT-5 Pro: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5GPT-5 Pro
CL-bench Life22.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1484—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#13), GPT-5 Pro: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5GPT-5 Pro
LMArena Text1472—
LMArena Creative Writing1455—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1844—
EQ-Bench 41315—
LMArena Multi-Turn1476—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.5 better than GPT-5 Pro?

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 46.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.5 or GPT-5 Pro?

GPT-5.5 is cheaper. It lists at $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens; GPT-5 Pro lists at $15 and $120.

Is GPT-5.5 or GPT-5 Pro better for coding?

GPT-5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.2 versus 44.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.5 does, with 1.05M tokens against 400K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 and GPT-5 Pro share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.5 has 71 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 Pro has 12.

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