Model comparison
GPT-5.5 vs o3-mini
GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index. o3-mini costs 5.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 37 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 37 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.5 scores higher in 9 categories and o3-mini in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.5 leads 72.8 to 16.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 85% for GPT-5.5 and 3% for o3-mini.
- o3-mini is cheaper at $1.10 / $4.40 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $30 for GPT-5.5.
- GPT-5.5 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.
Side by side
| GPT-5.5 | o3-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 63.4 | 36.7 |
| Released | 2026-04-23 | 2024-12-20 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 1.05M | 200K |
| Max output | 128K | 100K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $5 | $1.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $30 | $4.40 |
| Results tracked | 71 | 51 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-5.5 leads
GPT-5.5: 58.2 (#17), o3-mini: 40.8 (#132)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 56.1% | 39.8% |
| GSO | 40.2% | 1.3% |
| WeirdML | 84.9% | 43.7% |
| LMArena Coding | 1494 | 1378 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.6% | — |
| DeepSWE | 67% | — |
| FrontierCode | 43% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 60.4% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1513 | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 82.7% |
| MirrorCode | 10% | — |
| CadEval | — | 54% |
| ALE-Bench | 1,943 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.5 leads
GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6), o3-mini: 29.6 (#84)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 84.7% | — |
| APEX-Agents | 55.1% | — |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 13% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 6.3% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 44.6% | — |
| Cybench | — | 22.5% |
| DeepResearch Bench | 54% | — |
| PostTrainBench | 27.2% | — |
| ExploitBench | 47.4% | — |
| GBAEval | 53.2% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 26% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1242 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 7,524 | — |
Reasoning GPT-5.5 leads
GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#11), o3-mini: 16.3 (#305)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 85% | 3% |
| SimpleBench | 69% | 22.8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 95% | 34.5% |
| CritPt | 27.1% | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | 54% | 17% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1489 | 1366 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 56% | 7% |
| DTBench | 96% | 68.8% |
| LMCA | 54.3% | 19% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 159.1 | 140.34 |
| ForecastBench | 60.6 | 59.6 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 88.8% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 96.2% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 34.3% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 89.6% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 70.6% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 88.1% | — |
| Bench to the Future 3 | 0.14 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 75.9% |
Math GPT-5.5 leads
GPT-5.5: 81.7 (#11), o3-mini: 28.1 (#244)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 85.3% | 18.6% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 72.5% | 0% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | 76.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1486 | 1396 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 51.7% | 12.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 35.4% | 4.2% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 94.3% | — |
| ProofBench | 50% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 96.5% |
| FrontierMath Erdős | 0% | — |
Knowledge GPT-5.5 leads
GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#17), o3-mini: 38.3 (#146)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 94% | 77% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 63% | 15.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1508 | 1364 |
| Confabulations | — | 17.9% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-5.5: 46.9 (#12), o3-mini: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1297 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 36.2% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 44.2% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1486 | — |
Multilingual GPT-5.5 leads
GPT-5.5: 56.4 (#20), o3-mini: 45.7 (#164)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1467 | 1319 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1533 | 1379 |
| LMArena French | 1486 | 1334 |
| LMArena German | 1480 | 1303 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1498 | 1286 |
| LMArena Korean | 1460 | 1314 |
| LMArena Russian | 1473 | 1304 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1468 | 1321 |
Instruction Following GPT-5.5 leads
GPT-5.5: 77.5 (#18), o3-mini: 75.1 (#72)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1479 | 1337 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 84.4% |
Long Context GPT-5.5 leads
GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12), o3-mini: 33.8 (#256)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1484 | 1343 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 50% |
| CL-bench Life | 22.2% | — |
Writing & Preference GPT-5.5 leads
GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#13), o3-mini: 50.3 (#182)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.5 | o3-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1472 | 1337 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1455 | 1286 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1476 | 1320 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 61.7% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1844 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1315 | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 50.7% |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-5.5 better than o3-mini?
GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index. o3-mini costs 5.8× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, GPT-5.5 or o3-mini?
o3-mini is cheaper. It lists at $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens; GPT-5.5 lists at $5 and $30.
Is GPT-5.5 or o3-mini better for coding?
GPT-5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.2 versus 40.8 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
GPT-5.5 does, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 and o3-mini share?
37 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.5 has 71 scored results on Noometry and o3-mini has 51.