Model comparison

GPT-5.5 vs Laguna XS.2

GPT-5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#8); Laguna XS.2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #8 Confirmed

Laguna XS.2 Poolside

32.5

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.5 scores higher in 2 categories and Laguna XS.2 in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.5 leads 81.5 to 20.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ProofBench: 50% for GPT-5.5 and 0% for Laguna XS.2.
  • Laguna XS.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.5 and Laguna XS.2 specifications
GPT-5.5Laguna XS.2
ProviderOpenAIPoolside
Noometry Index63.432.5
Released2026-04-232026-04-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$30—
Results tracked712

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 58.3 (#13), Laguna XS.2: 34.1

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Laguna XS.2
LMArena WebDev15121302
SWE-bench Verified80.6%—
DeepSWE67%—
FrontierCode43%—
SciCode56.1%—
GSO40.2%—
WeirdML84.9%—
LMArena Coding1494—
MirrorCode10%—
ALE-Bench1,943—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6), Laguna XS.2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Laguna XS.2
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 Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#8), Laguna XS.2: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Laguna XS.2
ARC-AGI-285%—
SimpleBench69%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
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 Index159.25—
ForecastBench60.6—

Math GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 81.5 (#9), Laguna XS.2: 20.3

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#14), Laguna XS.2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Laguna XS.2
GPQA Diamond94%—
SimpleQA Verified63%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—
LMArena Expert1508—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 47.1 (#11), Laguna XS.2: —

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

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 56.5 (#19), Laguna XS.2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Laguna XS.2
LMArena Non-English1467—
LMArena Chinese1535—
LMArena French1486—
LMArena German1478—
LMArena Japanese1498—
LMArena Korean1461—
LMArena Russian1473—
LMArena Spanish1469—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 77.7 (#18), Laguna XS.2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Laguna XS.2
LMArena Instruction Following1479—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12), Laguna XS.2: —

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

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#13), Laguna XS.2: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Laguna XS.2
LMArena Text1471—
LMArena Creative Writing1455—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1844—
EQ-Bench 41315—
LMArena Multi-Turn1477—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.5 better than Laguna XS.2?

GPT-5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#8); Laguna XS.2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is GPT-5.5 or Laguna XS.2 better for coding?

GPT-5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.3 versus 34.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 and Laguna XS.2 share?

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

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