Model comparison

GPT-5.5 vs Solar Pro 3

GPT-5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#8); Solar Pro 3 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.5 OpenAI

63.4

Rank #8 Confirmed

Solar Pro 3 Upstage

33.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.5 scores higher in 2 categories and Solar Pro 3 in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.5 leads 72.7 to 21.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 56.1% for GPT-5.5 and 24.7% for Solar Pro 3.
  • Solar Pro 3 is cheaper at $0.25 / $0.25 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $30 for GPT-5.5.
  • GPT-5.5 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 131K.

Side by side

GPT-5.5 and Solar Pro 3 specifications
GPT-5.5Solar Pro 3
ProviderOpenAIUpstage
Noometry Index63.433.3
Released2026-04-232026-01
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M131K
Max output128K8K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$30$0.25
Results tracked712

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.5 leads

GPT-5.5: 58.3 (#13), Solar Pro 3: 34.2

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Solar Pro 3
SciCode56.1%24.7%
SWE-bench Verified80.6%—
DeepSWE67%—
FrontierCode43%—
LMArena WebDev1512—
GSO40.2%—
WeirdML84.9%—
LMArena Coding1494—
MirrorCode10%—
ALE-Bench1,943—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 50.7 (#6), Solar Pro 3: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Solar Pro 3
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: 72.7 (#8), Solar Pro 3: 21.7

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Solar Pro 3
CritPt27.1%0%
ARC-AGI-285%—
SimpleBench69%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)96.2%—
ARC-AGI-195%—
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 Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 81.5 (#9), Solar Pro 3: —

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 64.4 (#14), Solar Pro 3: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Solar Pro 3
GPQA Diamond94%—
SimpleQA Verified63%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.3%—
LMArena Expert1508—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 47.1 (#11), Solar Pro 3: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Solar Pro 3
LMArena Vision1297—
Blueprint-Bench 236.2%—
Furniture Assembly44.2%—
LMArena Document1486—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 56.5 (#19), Solar Pro 3: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Solar Pro 3
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), Solar Pro 3: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Solar Pro 3
LMArena Instruction Following1479—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 48.3 (#12), Solar Pro 3: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Solar Pro 3
CL-bench Life22.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1484—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.5: 72.8 (#13), Solar Pro 3: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Solar Pro 3
LMArena Text1471—
LMArena Creative Writing1455—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1844—
EQ-Bench 41315—
LMArena Multi-Turn1477—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.5 better than Solar Pro 3?

GPT-5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#8); Solar Pro 3 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.5 or Solar Pro 3?

Solar Pro 3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens; GPT-5.5 lists at $5 and $30.

Is GPT-5.5 or Solar Pro 3 better for coding?

GPT-5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 58.3 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.5 does, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.5 and Solar Pro 3 share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.5 has 71 scored results on Noometry and Solar Pro 3 has 2.

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