Model comparison
GPT-5 vs GPT-5.5 Instant
GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 42.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 scores higher in 7 categories and GPT-5.5 Instant in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5 leads 54.6 to 26.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3): 55.4% for GPT-5 and 26.3% for GPT-5.5 Instant.
Side by side
| GPT-5 | GPT-5.5 Instant | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 50.9 | 42.5 |
| Released | 2025-08-07 | 2026-05-05 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 400K | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.25 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Results tracked | 69 | 27 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-5 leads
GPT-5: 50.7 (#39), GPT-5.5 Instant: 43.7 (#73)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 42.9% | 48.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1436 | 1433 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.6% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 65% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 88% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1417 | — |
| GSO | 6.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 60.7% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,162 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.67 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-5: 33.0 (#53), GPT-5.5 Instant: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5 | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 49.6% | — |
| GDPval | 34.8% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 1.7% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 49.6% | — |
| BALROG | 32.8% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1133 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 69.6% | — |
Reasoning GPT-5 leads
GPT-5: 38.3 (#55), GPT-5.5 Instant: 24.2 (#149)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 12.6% | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | 37% | 12% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1415 | 1426 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 150 | 142.48 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 9.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 56.7% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 72.7% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 65.7% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 10.5% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 12.7% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 23% | — |
| DTBench | 90.7% | — |
| LMCA | 40% | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.4 | — |
Math GPT-5 leads
GPT-5: 54.6 (#36), GPT-5.5 Instant: 26.1 (#241)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 55.4% | 26.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 22% | 2.4% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 91.4% | 68.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1406 | 1420 |
| ProofBench | 18% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 64.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 98.1% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 32.4% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 12.5% | — |
Knowledge GPT-5 leads
GPT-5: 56.5 (#37), GPT-5.5 Instant: 48.9 (#68)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 86.2% | 82.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1420 | 1409 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 25.3% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 50.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 86.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 10.3% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 14.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 79.2% | — |
Multimodal GPT-5 leads
GPT-5: 46.1 (#12), GPT-5.5 Instant: 39.3 (#48)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1232 | 1250 |
| GeoBench | 81% | — |
| VPCT | 66% | — |
| LMArena Document | — | 1403 |
Multilingual GPT-5.5 Instant leads
GPT-5: 51.5 (#105), GPT-5.5 Instant: 53.0 (#76)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1397 | 1417 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1423 | 1457 |
| LMArena French | 1409 | 1428 |
| LMArena German | 1415 | 1410 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1411 | 1408 |
| LMArena Korean | 1361 | 1393 |
| LMArena Russian | 1406 | 1430 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1398 | 1430 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
GPT-5: 74.0 (#107), GPT-5.5 Instant: 74.4 (#94)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1388 | 1407 |
| IFEval | 87.5% | — |
Long Context GPT-5 leads
GPT-5: 69.5 (#2), GPT-5.5 Instant: 43.4 (#92)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1399 | 1422 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 97.2% | — |
Writing & Preference GPT-5 leads
GPT-5: 63.5 (#63), GPT-5.5 Instant: 62.0 (#81)
| Benchmark | GPT-5 | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1406 | 1419 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1365 | 1420 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1426 | 1434 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 86% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1627 | — |
| WildBench | 85.7% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-5 better than GPT-5.5 Instant?
GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 42.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is GPT-5 or GPT-5.5 Instant better for coding?
GPT-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.7 versus 43.7 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do GPT-5 and GPT-5.5 Instant share?
26 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.5 Instant has 27.