OpenAI · Frontier
GPT 5.5
GPT-5.5 is an OpenAI model, built for agentic coding, computer use, and professional knowledge work with stronger reasoning and token efficiency.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- PDF input
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- none · low · medium · high · xhigh
- Discovery tier
- Frontier
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $5.00
- Output
- $30.00
- Cache read
- $0.50
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1.1M
- Max output
- 128K
- Average output (7 days)
- 490 tokens
- Longer than 48% of 465 models
Side by side
GPT 5.5 compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| GPT 5.5OpenAIThis model | GPT 4.1OpenAIRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Discovery tier | Frontier | Frontier |
| Added | Apr 23, 2026 | Sep 10, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1.05MBest | 1.05M |
| Max output | 128KBest | 32.77K |
| Average output | 490 tokens | 29 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $5.00 | $2.00Best |
| Output | $30.00 | $8.00Best |
| Cache read | $0.50 | $0.50 |
| Performance | ||
| Request success (24h) | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 38.4Best | 12.7 |
| Coding Index | 74.9 | — |
| Math Index | — | 34.7 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | No |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| PDF input | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | none, low, medium, high, xhigh | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- GPT 5.5
- GPT 4.1
Intelligence Index
- GPT 5.538.4
- GPT 4.112.7
GPT 5.5 tested at xhigh reasoning effort
GPT 5.5: Better than 82% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- GPT 5.5: 74.9
- GPT 4.1: —
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- GPT 5.5: —
- GPT 4.1: 34.7
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- GPT 5.5: 47.3%
- GPT 4.1: —
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- GPT 5.5: 19.6%
- GPT 4.1: —
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- GPT 5.5: 1,136 Elo
- GPT 4.1: —
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- GPT 5.5: 1,351 Elo
- GPT 4.1: —
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- GPT 5.5: 21.2%
- GPT 4.1: —
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- GPT 5.5: 84.3%Top
- GPT 4.1: 68.3%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- GPT 5.5: 28.9%
- GPT 4.1: —
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- GPT 5.5: 45.8%Top
- GPT 4.1: 4.2%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- GPT 5.5: 93.5%Top
- GPT 4.1: 66.6%
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- GPT 5.5: —
- GPT 4.1: 80.6%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- GPT 5.5: 75.9%Top
- GPT 4.1: 43.0%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- GPT 5.5: 14.6%
- GPT 4.1: —
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- GPT 5.5: 55.8%
- GPT 4.1: —
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- GPT 5.5: —
- GPT 4.1: 45.7%
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- GPT 5.5: —
- GPT 4.1: 34.7%
AIME
Competition mathematics
- GPT 5.5: —
- GPT 4.1: 43.7%
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- GPT 5.5: —
- GPT 4.1: 91.3%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- GPT 5.5: 60.6%Top
- GPT 4.1: 13.6%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- GPT 5.5: 93.9%Top
- GPT 4.1: 47.1%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- GPT 5.5: 84.3%Top
- GPT 4.1: 68.3%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. GPT 5.5 was tested at xhigh reasoning effort; compare scores measured at the same effort.Artificial Analysis
- GPT 5.5
- GPT 4.1
| Leaderboard | GPT 5.5 | GPT 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Roleplay | #11 · 30.1% | Not in top 20 |
| Math | #15 · 6.5% | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Use cases leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
- GPT 5.5
- GPT 4.1
| Leaderboard | GPT 5.5 | GPT 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Math | #15 · 1500.6 | Not in top 20 |
| Instruction Following | #19 · 1477.6 | Not in top 20 |
| German | #16 · 1490.3 | Not in top 20 |
| Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations | #10 · 1490.1 | Not in top 20 |
| Industry Legal And Government | #17 · 1495.1 | Not in top 20 |
| Industry Mathematical | #15 · 1506.3 | Not in top 20 |
| Japanese | #8 · 1505.1 | Not in top 20 |
| Korean | #16 · 1451.5 | Not in top 20 |
| Non English | #17 · 1473.6 | Not in top 20 |
| Spanish | #10 · 1485.0 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control Overall | #13 · 1286.0 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Creative Writing Vision | #13 · 1281.0 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Diagram | #8 · 1323.3 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · English | #13 · 1280.9 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Entity Recognition | #14 · 1219.2 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Homework | #6 · 1335.1 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Humor | #8 · 1287.0 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Ocr | #14 · 1299.0 | Not in top 20 |
| Search Overall | #2 · 1246.6 | Not in top 20 |
| Document Overall | #6 · 1485.7 | Not in top 20 |
| Document Style Control Overall | #8 · 1482.8 | Not in top 20 |
| Vision Style Control · Creative Writing | Not in top 20 | #7 · 1233.7 |
| Vision Style Control · Captioning | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1209.9 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
- GPT 5.5
- GPT 4.1
| Leaderboard | GPT 5.5 | GPT 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode Main | #18 · 43.0% | Not in top 20 |
| FrontierCode Extended | #16 · 56.7% | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on FrontierCode leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.FrontierCode
- GPT 5.5
- GPT 4.1
| Leaderboard | GPT 5.5 | GPT 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | #10 · 162.9 | Not in top 20 |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1–3) | #1 · 85.3% | Not in top 20 |
| SWE-bench Verified | #1 · 80.6% | #13 · 48.5% |
| GPQA Diamond | #3 · 94.0% | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Epoch AI leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Epoch AI
- GPT 5.5
- GPT 4.1
| Leaderboard | GPT 5.5 | GPT 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-1 | #12 · 96.5% | Not in top 20 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | #11 · 85.0% | Not in top 20 |
| ARC-AGI-3 (Default harness) | #14 · 0.4% | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on ARC Prize leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.ARC Prize
- GPT 5.5
- GPT 4.1
| Leaderboard | GPT 5.5 | GPT 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench 4 | #7 · 1294 | Not in top 20 |
| Creative Writing v3 | #18 · 1845 | Not in top 20 |
| EQ-Bench 3 | #8 · 1554 | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on EQ-Bench leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.EQ-Bench
- GPT 5.5
- GPT 4.1
| Leaderboard | GPT 5.5 | GPT 4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| SVG | #19 · 1233 | Not in top 20 |
| ASCII Art | #15 · 1251 | Not in top 20 |
| Agentic Game Dev | #12 · 1142 | Not in top 20 |
| Native Apps | #15 · 1165 | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Design Arena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Design Arena
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Prompt cache hits
- 0.0%
- About $5.00 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "openai/gpt-5.5",
"reasoning_effort": "medium",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="openai/gpt-5.5",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)OpenAI
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