Model comparison

GPT-5.5 vs o3-pro

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 42.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #9 Confirmed

o3-pro OpenAI

42.9

Rank #105 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.5 scores higher in 4 categories and o3-pro in 1 category; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.5 leads 72.8 to 23.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 85% for GPT-5.5 and 4.9% for o3-pro.
  • GPT-5.5 is cheaper at $5 / $30 per million input/output tokens, against $20 / $80 for o3-pro.
  • GPT-5.5 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

GPT-5.5 and o3-pro specifications
GPT-5.5o3-pro
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index63.442.9
Released2026-04-232025-06-10
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M200K
Max output128K100K
Input $ / M tokens$5$20
Output $ / M tokens$30$80
Results tracked7112

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 58.2 (#17), o3-pro: 55.5 (#24)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5o3-pro
WeirdML84.9%58.2%
SWE-bench Verified80.6%—
DeepSWE67%—
FrontierCode43%—
Aider Polyglot—84.9%
LMArena WebDev1513—
SciCode56.1%—
GSO40.2%—
LMArena Coding1494—
MirrorCode10%—
ALE-Bench1,943—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6), o3-pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5o3-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), o3-pro: 23.8 (#171)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5o3-pro
ARC-AGI-285%4.9%
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%72.1%
ARC-AGI-195%59.3%
DTBench96%86.9%
LMCA54.3%38.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index159.1147.42
SimpleBench69%—
NYT Connections (extended)96.2%—
CritPt27.1%—
Chess Puzzles54%—
EBR-Bench34.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1489—
Mystery Game Puzzles56%—
Surface Evolver Bench88.1%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
ForecastBench60.6—

Math Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 81.7 (#11), o3-pro: —

Knowledge GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#17), o3-pro: 29.5 (#238)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5o3-pro
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%23.3%
GPQA Diamond94%—
SimpleQA Verified63%—
Confabulations—14.2%
LMArena Expert1508—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 46.9 (#12), o3-pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5o3-pro
LMArena Vision1297—
Blueprint-Bench 236.2%—
Furniture Assembly44.2%—
LMArena Document1486—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 56.4 (#20), o3-pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5o3-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), o3-pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5o3-pro
LMArena Instruction Following1479—

Long Context o3-pro leads

GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12), o3-pro: 72.2 (#1)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5o3-pro
Fiction.LiveBench—97.2%
CL-bench Life22.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1484—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 72.7 (#13), o3-pro: 57.1 (#133)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5o3-pro
LMArena Text1472—
LMArena Creative Writing1455—
Short-Story Creative Writing—84.4%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1844—
EQ-Bench 41315—
LMArena Multi-Turn1476—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.5 better than o3-pro?

GPT-5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 63.4 to 42.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.5 or o3-pro?

GPT-5.5 is cheaper. It lists at $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens; o3-pro lists at $20 and $80.

Is GPT-5.5 or o3-pro better for coding?

GPT-5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.2 versus 55.5 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-pro share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.5 has 71 scored results on Noometry and o3-pro has 12.

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