OpenAI · closed · 2026-04

GPT-5.5

#9 index 85.7
the take

OpenAI's current flagship, and it earns the top-tier billing on reasoning. The catch is the coding gap: OpenAI quotes 88.7 on SWE-bench, independent runs land near 80.6, and I trust the independent number. Still elite, still priced like it knows it.

benchmarks
specs
Context
1M
Input
$5/M
Output
$30/M
Speed
79 tok/s
Modality
text, image
strengths
  • Frontier reasoning (GPQA ~94 independently)
  • Strong agentic coding
  • 1M-token context
weaknesses
  • $5/$30 is roughly double the prior tier
  • Self-reported SWE-bench runs ~8 pts hot
  • Long-context billing surcharge past 272K

Sources: [1][2][3]