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GPT-5 vs GPT-5.5

The readout for GPT-5 and GPT-5.5, before the detailed comparison sheet.

Model A

GPT-5

OpenAI

Contender
vs

Model B

GPT-5.5

OpenAI

Leading

Key Takeaways

Weighted outcome: GPT-5.5. Benchmark capability categories carry 80%, while price, API performance, and availability carry 20%.

Decision read

GPT-5.5

GPT-5.5 has the higher weighted result; Model A / B score 21.3 to 78.7.

Evidence depth

114 data points

Includes 24 benchmark rows, 0 audit samples, and 10 provider examples.

Selection signal

Start with GPT-5.5

The charts below split 34 high-signal samples across speed, scores, and audit health.

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Comparison sheet

This report only uses LMSpeed data for GPT-5 and GPT-5.5: pricing, speed aggregates, third-party benchmark scores, and shared provider samples.

Model compare
GPT-5
GPT-5.5
Overall leaderContenderLeading
Weighted overall score21.3 pts78.7 pts
Benchmark category leads1 categories5 categories
Operational advantagesAverage speed, Provider coverageCheapest input price, First-token latency, Free providers
Context window400K tokens1.1M tokens
Max output128K tokens128K tokens
Modalities

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Output

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Output

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Features
Text inputImage inputFile inputText outputTool callingStructured outputsJSON modeReasoning
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The overall result weights benchmark capability categories at 80% and price, API speed/latency, and availability at 20%. Recent test volume does not affect the winner, and missing benchmark categories are excluded.

Model metadata

Model compare
GPT-5
GPT-5.5
DeveloperOpenAIOpenAI
ReleasedAug 2025Apr 2026
ParametersNo dataNo data
TokenizerGPTGPT
Knowledge cutoff2024-09-302025-12-01
OpenRouter IDopenai/gpt-5openai/gpt-5.5
ReferencesNo dataNo data

When to choose each model

This report only uses LMSpeed data for GPT-5 and GPT-5.5: pricing, speed aggregates, third-party benchmark scores, and shared provider samples.

GPT-5

GPT-5 is stronger in benchmark categories (Math) and operational dimensions (Average speed, Provider coverage).

GPT-5.5

GPT-5.5 is stronger in benchmark categories (Agents, Coding, Reasoning, Knowledge, Instruction following) and operational dimensions (Cheapest input price, First-token latency, Free providers).

Benchmark score comparison

Third-party benchmark profile synced into LMSpeed; only metrics available for both models are shown.

Category performance

Compare benchmark category scores on a 0-100 scale. Select a category to inspect the gap.

Model A coverage
6 / 8
Model B coverage
7 / 8
Shared
6 shared categories

Avg. score

GPT-5

51.9

Avg. score

GPT-5.5

58.2

Agents

GPT-5.5 leads by 16.9

GPT-545
GPT-5.561.9

Coding

GPT-5.5 leads by 10.7

GPT-549
GPT-5.559.7

Reasoning

GPT-5.5 leads by 6.5

GPT-552.7
GPT-5.559.2

Knowledge

GPT-5.5 leads by 9.8

GPT-549.5
GPT-5.559.3

Math

GPT-5 leads by 4.5

GPT-561.4
GPT-5.556.9

Multilingual

No data

GPT-5-
GPT-5.5-

Multimodal

GPT-5.5

GPT-5-
GPT-5.555.7

Instruction following

GPT-5.5 leads by 1.0

GPT-553.6
GPT-5.554.6

Professional benchmark details

Metric-level scores with benchmark source, rank depth, confidence, error, and evaluation date where available.

Pricingverified

Input price

SourceGPT-5 (minimal)

GPT-5

winner

$1.25/M

Rank #119/180 · confidence 4

+$3.75/M

GPT-5.5

$5.00/M

Rank #164/180 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Blended price

SourceGPT-5 (minimal)

GPT-5

winner

$3.44/M

Rank #135/180 · confidence 4

+$7.81/M

GPT-5.5

$11.25/M

Rank #170/180 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Output price

SourceGPT-5 (minimal)

GPT-5

winner

$10.00/M

Rank #138/180 · confidence 4

+$20.00/M

GPT-5.5

$30.00/M

Rank #170/180 · confidence 4

Reasoningverified

GPQA

SourceGPT-5 (minimal)

GPT-5

67.3%

Rank #143/212 · confidence 4

+26.2%

GPT-5.5

winner

93.5%

Rank #5/212 · confidence 4

Reasoningreported

CritPt

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

5.7

Rank #38/83 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+21.4

GPT-5.5

winner

27.1

Rank #7/83 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-04-23

Reasoningreported

AA-LCR

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

76.3

Rank #23/100 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+2.7

GPT-5.5

winner

79.0

Rank #10/100 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-04-23

Reasoningverified

HLE

SourceGPT-5 (minimal)

GPT-5

6.0%

Rank #151/209 · confidence 4

+39.8%

GPT-5.5

winner

45.8%

Rank #12/209 · confidence 4

Codingreported

Vibe Code Bench

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

20.1

Rank #22/33 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+49.8

GPT-5.5

winner

69.8

Rank #2/33 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-04-23

Codingreported

AA Coding Index

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

37.8

Rank #53/70 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+37.1

GPT-5.5

winner

74.9

Rank #8/70 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-04-23

Codingreported

AA-SciCode

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

42.9

Rank #56/108 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+13.2

GPT-5.5

winner

56.1

Rank #8/108 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-04-23

Codingverified

SciCode

SourceGPT-5 (minimal)

GPT-5

38.8%

Rank #99/205 · confidence 4

+17.3%

GPT-5.5

winner

56.1%

Rank #9/205 · confidence 4

Knowledgereported

AA-Omniscience Accuracy

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

40.3

Rank #30/101 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+17.7

GPT-5.5

winner

58.0

Rank #4/101 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-04-23

Knowledgereported

AA-GPQA Diamond

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

85.4

Rank #55/108 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+8.1

GPT-5.5

winner

93.5

Rank #5/108 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-04-23

Knowledgereported

AA-HLE

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

28.5

Rank #47/108 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+17.3

GPT-5.5

winner

45.8

Rank #9/108 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-04-23

Knowledgereported

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

35.3

Rank #61/111 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+21.0

GPT-5.5

winner

56.3

Rank #9/111 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-04-23

Knowledgereported

AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

82.2

Rank #36/101 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+6.8

GPT-5.5

winner

89.0

Rank #22/101 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-04-23

Multimodalreported

AA-MMMU-Pro

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

74.2

Rank #37/65 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+5.7

GPT-5.5

winner

79.9

Rank #13/65 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-04-23

Multimodalreported

Design Arena Website

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

1195.0

Rank #49/75 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+81.0

GPT-5.5

winner

1276.0

Rank #27/75 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-04-23

Instruction followingreported

AA-IFBench

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

73.1

Rank #27/84 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+2.8

GPT-5.5

winner

75.9

Rank #14/84 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-04-23

Agentsreported

JobBench

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

8.5

Rank #23/23 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+34.2

GPT-5.5

winner

42.7

Rank #5/23 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-04-23

Agentsreported

τ²-bench results

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

84.8

Rank #46/82 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+13.2

GPT-5.5

winner

98.0

Rank #8/82 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-04-23

Agentsreported

AA Agentic Index

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

26.5

Rank #39/65 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+20.9

GPT-5.5

winner

47.4

Rank #14/65 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-04-23

Agentsreported

GDPval-AA

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

1083.0

Rank #42/66 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+402.0

GPT-5.5

winner

1485.0

Rank #15/66 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-04-23

Agentsreported

GDPval-AA

SourceGPT-5 (high)

GPT-5

29.1

Rank #42/61 · confidence 1 · eval date 2025-08-07

+20.1

GPT-5.5

winner

49.2

Rank #17/61 · confidence 3 · eval date 2026-04-23

API audit comparison

Latest completed audits from shared providers, with four safety and integrity score groups plus report links.

Provider
GPT-5
GPT-5.5
No completed audits are available from shared providers yet.

Provider examples

Speed aggregates and input/output pricing share each provider row for real API selection and migration cost checks.

Provider
GPT-5
GPT-5.5
6345ywz API35 tests

GPT-5

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

GPT-5.5

speed / latency

38 tok/s / 8937ms

input / output

No data

V-API20 tests

GPT-5

speed / latency

95 tok/s / 1234ms

input / output

No data

GPT-5.5

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

DeepKey API10 tests

GPT-5

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

GPT-5.5

speed / latency

43 tok/s / 2874ms

input / output

No data

EasyMore5 tests

GPT-5

speed / latency

46 tok/s / 6577ms

input / output

No data

GPT-5.5

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

Fengsili API5 tests

GPT-5

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

GPT-5.5

speed / latency

58 tok/s / 3313ms

input / output

No data

Dext API

GPT-5

gpt-5

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/M/$0/M

GPT-5.5

gpt-5-5

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/M/$0/M

兔子API

GPT-5

gpt-5-all

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/request

GPT-5.5

gpt-5.5

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/request

初叶🍂Furry API

GPT-5

gpt-5

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/M/$0/M

GPT-5.5

gpt-5-5

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/request

Yun API

GPT-5

gpt-5

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.0027/request

GPT-5.5

gpt-5.5-openai-compact

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.171/M/$1.03/M

KFCV50

GPT-5

gpt-5

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.0068/request

GPT-5.5

gpt-5.5

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.068/M/$0.411/M

FAQ

Weighted outcome: GPT-5.5. Benchmark capability categories carry 80%, while price, API performance, and availability carry 20%.

Why is this comparison indexable?
It has 6 verifiable comparison points, and both models have pricing or benchmark data.
Are missing metrics invented?
No. Metrics without LMSpeed data are omitted from this report.

Rankings are based on community-submitted tests and periodic health probes. Advisory only, not official data.