Model comparison

GPT-5.5 vs Jamba Large

GPT-5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#9); Jamba Large does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #9 Confirmed

Jamba Large AI21 Labs

33.1

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.5 scores higher in 2 categories and Jamba Large in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.5 leads 72.8 to 18.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 88.8% for GPT-5.5 and 26.1% for Jamba Large.
  • Jamba Large is cheaper at $2 / $8 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $30 for GPT-5.5.
  • GPT-5.5 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 256K.
  • Jamba Large has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.5 and Jamba Large specifications
GPT-5.5Jamba Large
ProviderOpenAIAI21 Labs
Noometry Index63.433.1
Released2026-04-232025-07-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M256K
Max output128K4K
Input $ / M tokens$5$2
Output $ / M tokens$30$8
Results tracked712

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 58.2 (#17), Jamba Large: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Jamba Large
SWE-bench Verified80.6%—
DeepSWE67%—
FrontierCode43%—
LMArena WebDev1513—
SciCode56.1%—
GSO40.2%—
WeirdML84.9%—
LMArena Coding1494—
MirrorCode10%—
ALE-Bench1,943—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6), Jamba Large: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Jamba Large
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), Jamba Large: 18.0

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Jamba Large
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%26.1%
ARC-AGI-285%—
SimpleBench69%—
NYT Connections (extended)96.2%—
ARC-AGI-195%—
CritPt27.1%—
Chess Puzzles54%—
EBR-Bench34.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1489—
Mystery Game Puzzles56%—
DTBench96%—
LMCA54.3%—
Surface Evolver Bench88.1%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index159.1—
ForecastBench60.6—

Math Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 81.7 (#11), Jamba Large: —

Knowledge GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#17), Jamba Large: 37.7

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Jamba Large
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%9.7%
GPQA Diamond94%—
SimpleQA Verified63%—
LMArena Expert1508—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 46.9 (#12), Jamba Large: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Jamba Large
LMArena Vision1297—
Blueprint-Bench 236.2%—
Furniture Assembly44.2%—
LMArena Document1486—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 56.4 (#20), Jamba Large: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Jamba Large
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), Jamba Large: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Jamba Large
LMArena Instruction Following1479—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12), Jamba Large: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Jamba Large
CL-bench Life22.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1484—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#13), Jamba Large: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Jamba Large
LMArena Text1472—
LMArena Creative Writing1455—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1844—
EQ-Bench 41315—
LMArena Multi-Turn1476—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.5 better than Jamba Large?

GPT-5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#9); Jamba Large does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.5 or Jamba Large?

Jamba Large is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $8 per million output tokens; GPT-5.5 lists at $5 and $30.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.5 does, with 1.05M tokens against 256K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 and Jamba Large share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.5 has 71 scored results on Noometry and Jamba Large has 2.

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