Model comparison

GPT-5.5 vs o1-mini

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #8 Confirmed

o1-mini OpenAI

33.7

Rank #230 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.5 scores higher in 9 categories and o1-mini in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.5 leads 72.7 to 8.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 85% for GPT-5.5 and 0.8% for o1-mini.

Side by side

GPT-5.5 and o1-mini specifications
GPT-5.5o1-mini
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index63.433.7
Released2026-04-232024-09-12
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$30—
Results tracked7139

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 58.3 (#13), o1-mini: 35.1 (#218)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5o1-mini
WeirdML84.9%36.3%
LMArena Coding14941362
SWE-bench Verified80.6%—
DeepSWE67%—
FrontierCode43%—
Aider Polyglot—32.9%
LMArena WebDev1512—
SciCode56.1%—
GSO40.2%—
LiveBench Coding—48%
MirrorCode10%—
ALE-Bench1,943—
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—78.8%

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6), o1-mini: 24.3 (#112)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5o1-mini
Terminal-Bench84.7%—
APEX-Agents55.1%—
OSWorld 2.013%—
Remote Labor Index6.3%—
τ²-bench Banking44.6%—
Cybench—10%
DeepResearch Bench54%—
PostTrainBench27.2%—
ExploitBench47.4%—
GBAEval53.2%—
GDP.pdf26%—
LMArena Search1242—
Vending-Bench 27,524—

Reasoning GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#8), o1-mini: 8.9 (#340)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5o1-mini
ARC-AGI-285%0.8%
SimpleBench69%18.1%
ARC-AGI-195%14%
LMArena Hard Prompts14891333
Epoch Capabilities Index159.25135.82
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)96.2%—
CritPt27.1%—
Chess Puzzles54%—
EBR-Bench34.3%—
LiveBench Reasoning—72.3%
Mystery Game Puzzles56%—
DTBench96%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—57.9%
LMCA54.3%—
Surface Evolver Bench88.1%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
ForecastBench60.6—
LiveBench—57.8%

Math GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 81.5 (#9), o1-mini: 33.7 (#168)

Knowledge GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#14), o1-mini: 34.8 (#180)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5o1-mini
GPQA Diamond94%62.4%
LMArena Expert15081316
SimpleQA Verified63%—
Confabulations—18.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 47.1 (#11), o1-mini: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5o1-mini
LMArena Vision1297—
Blueprint-Bench 236.2%—
Furniture Assembly44.2%—
LMArena Document1486—

Multilingual GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 56.5 (#19), o1-mini: 43.8 (#177)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5o1-mini
LMArena Non-English14671289
LMArena Chinese15351314
LMArena French14861292
LMArena German14781278
LMArena Japanese14981245
LMArena Korean14611223
LMArena Russian14731283
LMArena Spanish14691302

Instruction Following GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 77.7 (#18), o1-mini: 67.0 (#200)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5o1-mini
LMArena Instruction Following14791304
LiveBench Instruction Following—65.4%

Long Context GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12), o1-mini: 40.1 (#156)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5o1-mini
LMArena Longer Query14841321
CL-bench Life22.2%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#13), o1-mini: 48.6 (#196)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5o1-mini
LMArena Text14711317
LMArena Creative Writing14551244
LMArena Multi-Turn14771314
Short-Story Creative Writing—64.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1844—
EQ-Bench 41315—
LiveBench Language—40.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.5 better than o1-mini?

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.5 or o1-mini better for coding?

GPT-5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.3 versus 35.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 and o1-mini share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.5 has 71 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.

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