BenchLeader

GPT-5.5

Reasoning effort

GPT-5.5 is an OpenAI proprietary reasoning model, released 23 Apr 2026. Its best configuration (xhigh reasoning effort) ranks #34 of 775 on the BenchLeader Index at 66.1 ±3.7, in the upper half. The ± is the point: 103 other configurations score within that range, so they and this one cannot be told apart on quality alone — price and speed are what separate them. It scores highest in reasoning (76) and lowest in agents & tools (61). At $11.25 per million tokens blended it is among the most expensive ranked models. Output speed of 92 tokens per second puts it faster than most, with a first answer in 52.1 s. It has been measured at 6 reasoning-effort settings; this summary describes the best-scoring one, and the tabs above switch between them. Last measured 19 Oct 2026.

Blended price
$11.25/M
$5.00 in · $30.00 out
Output speed
92 tok/s
measured by Artificial Analysis
First answer
52 s
first token 3.34 s
Context
1.1M
Full answer
58 s
median, reasoning included
Cost per run
$2.63
one full Intelligence Index run
Released
23 Apr 2026
How it scores by categoryDashed line = average model (50). One step of 15 = one standard deviation.
  1. Overall index66
  2. Reasoning76
  3. Coding61
  4. Agents & tools61
  5. Maths70
  6. Knowledge65
  7. Instruction following74
  8. Multimodal63
  9. Long context67
  10. Composite73

Versions

OpenAI has shipped 11 models under this name. Each is ranked on its own results; a newer version often has fewer results so far, which holds its index nearer the average until more arrive.

ModelReleasedIndexRank
GPT-5.69 Jul 2026––
GPT-5.5xhighthis page23 Apr 202666.1#34
GPT-5.4xhigh5 Mar 202664.8#44
GPT-5.2xhigh11 Dec 202560.7#107
GPT-5.1high12 Nov 202557.8#169
GPT-5high7 Aug 202558.0#165
GPT-4.114 Apr 202548.4#420
GPT-4.527 Feb 202549.8#380
GPT 4 012525 Jan 202445.5#505
GPT 4 061313 Jun 202339.8#662
GPT-414 Mar 202343.4#555

Reasoning-effort configurations

The same model behaves differently depending on how much it is allowed to think. Each row is one setting, scored only on the benchmarks that were run at that setting. “Not stated” collects results from publishers that did not say which setting they used; for a reasoning model that is usually its thinking mode, but we do not assume it. Pick a setting here or at the top of the page to see its price, speed and category scores.

EffortIndexRankSpeedFirst answerChat reply costCategories
no reasoning52.9#29779 tok/s0.92 s$0.011Agents & tools 54 · Coding 56 · Composite 55 · Instruction following 48 · Knowledge 59 · Long context 57 · Maths 49 · Multimodal 54 · Reasoning 50
low59.8#12281 tok/s1.84 s$0.011Agents & tools 62 · Coding 56 · Composite 64 · Instruction following 64 · Knowledge 68 · Long context 66 · Maths 60 · Multimodal 62 · Reasoning 56
medium63.0#7487 tok/s5.54 s$0.011Agents & tools 67 · Coding 60 · Composite 67 · Instruction following 70 · Knowledge 70 · Long context 67 · Multimodal 64 · Reasoning 67
high65.5#3788 tok/s21 s$0.011Agents & tools 70 · Coding 61 · Composite 71 · Human preference 68 · Instruction following 70 · Knowledge 70 · Long context 67 · Maths 68 · Multimodal 64 · Reasoning 68
xhighbest66.1#3492 tok/s52 s$0.011Agents & tools 61 · Coding 61 · Composite 73 · Instruction following 74 · Knowledge 65 · Long context 67 · Maths 70 · Multimodal 63 · Reasoning 76
not stated60.4#11159 tok/s3.34 s$0.011Agents & tools 60 · Coding 55 · Composite 51 · Human preference 67 · Maths 69 · Multimodal 64 · Reasoning 70

What more thinking costs

Turning the effort up buys index points and multiplies the bill. Here xhigh costs 2.9× medium for +3.1 on the index — 2.0 points per doubling of spend. Compare that with other models.

medium $0.902xhigh $2.63

How its index has moved

8 Sept 2026 to 19 Oct 2026
576471
  • xhigh
  • high
  • medium
  • not stated

The index is recomputed from scratch every day, so a line moves when a new benchmark result lands, when a publisher revises a score, or when the models it is normalised against change. Early movement usually means the score is still settling.

Benchmark results

See all LLM benchmarks. One column per reasoning effort. Rank is among every configuration of every model on that benchmark. Hover a score for the run it came from.

Reasoning

Benchmarkno reasoninglowmediumhighxhighnot statedSourceTrend
GPQA Diamond77.3%#13590.7%#39––––Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
SimpleBencheffort not stated–––––69.0%#15SimpleBench
Arena Hard Prompts–––1501#31–1499#35Arena (LMArena)
LiveBench 2.0 Reasoningnot in indexeffort not stated–––––89.7%#14LiveBench
LiveBench 1.0 Reasoningnot in index––––89.7%#15–LiveBench
GPQA Diamond (AA)not in index76.8%#22591.0%#5492.6%#3293.2%#2293.5%#14–Artificial Analysis
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)not in index13.7%#26432.7%#13842.4%#6845.0%#5045.8%#48–Artificial Analysis
GPQA Diamond (Vals)not in index––––93.2%#10–Vals AI
Kagi LLM Benchmarkeffort not stated–––––88.8%#2Kagi LLM Benchmark
ARC-AGI-1–76.2%#12292.2%#5594.5%#3795.0%#35–ARC Prize
ARC-AGI-2–33.3%#11770.4%#5583.3%#3685.0%#30–ARC Prize
ARC-AGI-3–––0.4%#46––ARC Prize
CritPt1.4%#2078.0%#13618.6%#6725.4%#4227.1%#33–Artificial Analysis
Chess Puzzlesnot in index9.0%#12130.0%#67––63.0%#7–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
Mystery Game Puzzlesnot in index18.0%#6828.0%#38–52.0%#1156.0%#9–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
CL-bench Lifenot in index–––22.2%#1––Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
LMCAnot in index––––54.3%#47–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
DTBenchnot in index––––96.0%#30–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
ForecastBenchnot in index–––67.0%#1–64.4%#25ForecastBench
BTF-3not in index–––14.3%#3––Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub

Coding

Benchmarkno reasoninglowmediumhighxhighnot statedSourceTrend
SciCode47.3%#12451.6%#9354.5%#6056.1%#4155.8%#43–SciCode
WeirdML67.2%#38––83.9%#1684.9%#14–WeirdML
FrontierCodeeffort not stated–––––43.0%#19Cognition
GSO-Bench––––40.2%#9–GSO-Bench
Arena Coding–––1519#37–1511#59Arena (LMArena)
Arena WebDev–––1487#611513#551456#69Arena (LMArena)
LiveBench 2.0 Codingnot in indexeffort not stated–––––85.1%#22LiveBench
LiveBench 1.0 Codingnot in index––––82.2%#10–LiveBench
SciCode (AA)not in index––54.5%#6156.1%#4155.8%#44–Artificial Analysis
LiveCodeBench––––85.3%#33–Vals AI
SWE-bench (Vals)not in index––––82.6%#19–Vals AI
Code Migrationnot in index––––45.2%#17–Vals AI
ProgramBenchnot in index––––0.5%#18–Vals AI
Vibe Code Bench v1.1not in index––––69.8%#42–Vals AI
SWE Atlas: Codebase QnAnot in index––––45.4%#8–Scale AI SEAL
SWE Atlas: Refactoringnot in index––––44.8%#6–Scale AI SEAL
SWE Atlas: Test Writingnot in index––––42.6%#9–Scale AI SEAL
MirrorCodenot in index–––10.0%#8––Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
Surface Evolver Benchnot in index––81.3%#888.1%#5––Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
DeepSWE v1.1not in index–27.0%#6554.0%#4064.4%#2967.0%#22–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
ALE-Benchnot in index1127.6#50–1589.4#19–1943.0#11–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA)not in index––5.0%#1009.1%#8914.7%#70–Artificial Analysis
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (AA)not in index61.0%#9465.5%#8180.5%#4279.4%#4884.3%#30–Artificial Analysis

Agents & tools

Benchmarkno reasoninglowmediumhighxhighnot statedSourceTrend
Terminal-Bencheffort not stated–––––84.7%#1Terminal-Bench
OSWorld-Verified 2.0––––13.0%#9–OSWorld
Remote Labor Indexeffort not stated–––––6.3%#6Scale AI / CAIS
APEX-Agentseffort not stated–––––55.1%#19Mercor
Arena Agent––––2.9#17-0.4#30Arena (LMArena)
LiveBench Long Agenticnot in indexeffort not stated–––––44.6%#19LiveBench
LiveBench Browsernot in indexeffort not stated–––––48.0%#30LiveBench
LiveBench Agentic Codingnot in index––––54.0%#34–LiveBench
Terminal-Bench Hard49.2%#2452.3%#1957.6%#1159.9%#960.6%#7–Artificial Analysis
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)not in index69.3%#15683.9%#10491.8%#5593.0%#4593.9%#37–Artificial Analysis
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)–––76.4%#16––Vals AI
MCP Atlas––––75.3%#18–Scale AI SEAL
HiL-Bencheffort not stated–––––39.7%#17Scale AI SEAL
τ³-bench Bankingnot in index––––44.6%#5–τ²-bench
GDPval-AA v2.1not in index23.5%#16927.2%#15136.5%#11641.3%#9542.5%#89–Artificial Analysis
τ³-Banking (AA)14.8%#11824.9%#8229.9%#6536.7%#4239.0%#34–Artificial Analysis
ITBench SRE (AA)not in index––––45.8%#13–Artificial Analysis
Analyst Agent (AA)not in index7.5%#47–––50.0%#10–Artificial Analysis
APEX-Agents (AA)not in index––––37.7%#6–Artificial Analysis
Finance Agent v2not in index––––51.8%#38–Vals AI
Legal Research Benchnot in index––––40.4%#29–Vals AI
SkillsBenchnot in index––––62.2%#5–Vals AI
SREBenchnot in index––––3.8%#19–Vals AI
Tax Agent Benchnot in index––––21.8%#41–Vals AI
Terminal-Bench 2.0 (Vals)not in index–––73.2%#1––Vals AI
Time Horizon Index: KSPnot in index––––8.3%#10–Vals AI
DeepResearch Benchnot in index–48.7%#1749.6%#1254.0%#4––DeepResearch Bench
PostTrainBenchnot in index––––27.2%#9–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
ExploitBenchnot in indexeffort not stated–––––47.4%#2Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
GBAEvalnot in indexeffort not stated–––––53.2%#6Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
Vending-Bench 2not in indexeffort not stated–––––7523.8#15Andon Labs
AutomationBenchnot in index––40.1%#9844.4%#9047.3%#86–Artificial Analysis
GDP.pdf (AA)not in index––20.6%#6122.6%#4821.2%#54–Artificial Analysis
EnterpriseOps-Gymnot in index––44.1%#17–46.6%#12–Artificial Analysis

Maths

Benchmarkno reasoninglowhighxhighnot statedSourceTrend
FrontierMath Tiers 1–3–––85.3%#13–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
FrontierMath Tier 4–––72.5%#19–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
OTIS Mock AIME57.8%#16684.4%#97–––Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
ProofBench–––50.0%#30–Vals AI
LiveBench Mathematicsnot in index–––95.9%#14–LiveBench
AIME 2026possible contamination–––100.0%#1–MathArena
HMMT February 2026possible contamination–––98.5%#1–MathArena
USAMO 2026not in indexpossible contamination–––98.2%#1–MathArena
MathArena Apexpossible contamination–––80.2%#2–MathArena
Arena Maths––1493#26–1501#16Arena (LMArena)

Knowledge

Benchmarkno reasoninglowmediumhighxhighnot statedSourceTrend
SimpleQA Verified––––63.0%#14–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
LiveBench 2.0 Data Analysisnot in indexeffort not stated–––––81.6%#4LiveBench
LiveBench Researchnot in indexeffort not stated–––––61.6%#38LiveBench
LiveBench 1.0 Data Analysisnot in index––––81.6%#5–LiveBench
AA-Omniscience-4.8#16115.1#8118.1#7418.8#7320.5#66–Artificial Analysis
MMLU-Pro––––88.1%#21–Vals AI
LegalBench––––86.5%#13–Vals AI
CorpFin––––68.4%#8–Vals AI
TaxEval––––75.0%#24–Vals AI
CaseLaw v2not in index––––66.2%#7–Vals AI
Excel Modeling Benchmarknot in index––––64.5%#25–Vals AI
MedCodenot in index––––49.1%#27–Vals AI
MedScribenot in index––––86.9%#20–Vals AI
Public Benefits Benchnot in index––––60.9%#31–Vals AI
DrugDiscoveryBenchnot in index––––51.6%#5–Scale AI SEAL
EBR-benchnot in index––––34.3%#11–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
GDP.pdfnot in index––––26.0%#16–Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
AA-Omniscience: accuracynot in index45.6%#8654.9%#3856.8%#3357.0%#3258.0%#28–Artificial Analysis
AA-Omniscience: non-hallucinationnot in index7.3%#48112.0%#38010.4%#40610.9%#39811.0%#396–Artificial Analysis

Instruction following

Benchmarkno reasoninglowmediumhighxhighnot statedSourceTrend
LiveBench Languagenot in index––––87.4%#9–LiveBench
LiveBench Instruction Followingnot in index––––70.7%#27–LiveBench
IFBench46.1%#19464.3%#10971.0%#6371.6%#5275.8%#26–Artificial Analysis
Arena Instruction Followingnot in index–––1478#23–1475#25Arena (LMArena)

Human preference

Benchmarkhighnot statedSourceTrend
Arena Text1481#261477#31Arena (LMArena)
EQ-Bench 4effort not stated–1315#4EQ-Bench
Arena Creative Writingnot in index1451#371448#41Arena (LMArena)
Arena Multi-turnnot in index1487#251484#33Arena (LMArena)
Arena Longer Queriesnot in index1488#311487#33Arena (LMArena)

Multimodal

Benchmarkno reasoninglowmediumhighxhighnot statedSourceTrend
Arena Vision–––1293#25–1297#21Arena (LMArena)
LiveBench Designnot in indexeffort not stated–––––70.3%#37LiveBench
MMMU-Pro71.4%#13679.0%#6481.2%#3981.1%#4079.9%#54–Artificial Analysis
MMMU-Pro (Vals)not in index––––88.3%#8–Vals AI
MortgageTaxnot in index––––68.8%#10–Vals AI
SAGEnot in index––––51.5%#13–Vals AI
Blueprint-Bench 2not in indexeffort not stated–––––36.2%#9Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub

Long context

Benchmarkno reasoninglowmediumhighxhighnot statedSourceTrend
AA-LCR64.0%#25781.0%#6083.0%#2584.3%#884.3%#8–Artificial Analysis
Arena Documentnot in index–––1480#11–1483#10Arena (LMArena)
MLCRnot in index15.0%#4611.1%#59––17.8%#36–Artificial Analysis

Composite

Benchmarkno reasoninglowmediumhighxhighnot statedSourceTrend
Epoch Capabilities Indexnot in indexeffort not stated–––––159.7#14Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
LiveBench 2.0effort not stated–––––68.7%#27LiveBench
LiveBench 1.0not in index––––80.2%#12–LiveBench
AA Intelligence Index v4.3.223.2#18730.7#11633.8#10037.0#8338.4#76–Artificial Analysis
Vals Multimodal Indexnot in index––––68.1%#9–Vals AI

Safety & honesty

BenchmarkxhighSourceTrend
FORTRESSnot in index16.3%#50Scale AI SEAL

Where it wins

Benchmarks where this configuration ranks in the top five of every configuration measured.

Where to run it

Every provider serving this model through OpenRouter, with throughput and first-token latency measured on live traffic over the last 30 minutes and each provider’s own price. Purple marks the best in each column.

ProviderSpeedFirst tokenInput $/MOutput $/MContextQuantisation
Azure75 tok/s3.96 s$5.50$33.001.1M–
OpenAI57 tok/s2.71 s$5.00$30.001.1M–
Azure38 tok/s5.15 s$5.50$33.001.1M–
Azure34 tok/s4.27 s$5.00$30.001.1M–

What a task costs

Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache at $0.500 per 1M. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.

WorkloadTokens in / outCostWith cachingTime
Chat reply400 / 300$0.011$0.009755.4 s
Summarize a 30-page report12,000 / 600$0.078$0.03758.7 s
Code edit6,000 / 1,500$0.075$0.0551.1 min
Agentic coding session60,000 / 4,000$0.420$0.2171.6 min
Structured extraction2,000 / 200$0.016$0.009354.3 s

More from OpenAI

New this month

Compare GPT-5.5 with…

See also

Data as of 21 Oct 2026. Compare these configurations.

Cite as: BenchLeader, “GPT-5.5: benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, https://www.benchleader.com/models/gpt-5-5, data as of 21 Oct 2026.