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GPT-5.5 vs GPT-5

Compare GPT-5.5 and GPT-5. Build AI products powered by either model on Appaca.

Model Comparison

FeatureGPT-5.5GPT-5
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Model Typetexttext
Context Window1,000,000 tokens400,000 tokens
Input Cost
$5.00/ 1M tokens
$1.25/ 1M tokens
Output Cost
$30.00/ 1M tokens
$10.00/ 1M tokens

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Strengths & Best Use Cases

GPT-5.5

OpenAI

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.

GPT-5

OpenAI

1. High reasoning capability

  • Designed for intelligent reasoning across complex domains.
  • Supports reasoning tokens and adjustable reasoning effort.

2. Strong coding and agentic performance

  • Optimized for multi-step coding tasks, tool-use chains, and agent workflows.
  • Handles complex logic, planning, and structured problem solving reliably.

3. Multimodal input

  • Accepts text + image as input.
  • Produces text outputs with strong instruction following.

4. Extensive tool support

  • Works with Web Search, File Search, Image Generation (as a tool), Code Interpreter, MCP, and more.
  • Integrated across Chat Completions, Responses API, Realtime, Assistants, Batch, Embeddings, etc.