GPT-5.5 vs GPT-4o

1. Strongest Agentic Coding Model

• State-of-the-art on Terminal-Bench 2.0 (82.7%), Expert-SWE (73.1%), and SWE-Bench Pro (58.6%), outperforming GPT-5.4 on complex coding tasks.
• Holds context across large systems, reasons through ambiguous failures, and carries changes through surrounding codebases with fewer tokens.

2. Higher Intelligence at GPT-5.4 Latency

• Co-designed, trained, and served on NVIDIA GB200/GB300 NVL72 systems to match GPT-5.4 per-token latency while performing at a significantly higher level.
• Uses fewer tokens to complete the same tasks, making it more efficient as well as more capable.

3. Powerful for Knowledge Work & Computer Use

• Scores 84.9% on GDPval (44 occupations) and 78.7% on OSWorld-Verified for autonomous computer operation.
• Excels at generating documents, spreadsheets, and reports; naturally moves across finding information, using tools, and checking output.

4. Scientific Research Co-Scientist

• Leading performance on GeneBench, BixBench, and FrontierMath; helped discover a new proof about Ramsey numbers verified in Lean.
• Strong enough to meaningfully accelerate progress at the frontiers of biomedical and mathematical research.

1. High-intelligence, general-purpose model

• Strong reasoning, creativity, summarization, and problem-solving.
• Great balance of speed, accuracy, and cost.

2. Multimodal input support

• Accepts text + image inputs for visual reasoning, extraction, or description.
• Output is text only, making it predictable for production.

3. Excellent for structured and unstructured tasks

• Performs well on Q&A, writing, analysis, classification, chat, and planning.
• Supports Structured Outputs, making it suitable for deterministic workflows.

4. Strong tool-use capabilities

• Supports function calling, API orchestration, and tool-augmented workflows.
• Integrates well with assistants, batch operations, and automation pipelines.

5. Large context for complex tasks

• 128K context allows multi-document reasoning, multi-step conversations, and large input payloads.

6. Production-ready reliability

• Stable outputs, predictable behaviors, and broad modality coverage.
• Supported across all major API endpoints.

7. Lower latency than o-series reasoning models

• Faster responses due to no dedicated reasoning step.
• Ideal for interactive or near-real-time applications.

8. Fine-tuning and distillation supported

• Enables specialization for domain-specific tasks.
• Distillation helps create smaller, efficient custom models.