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GPT-5.5

GPT-5.5 is OpenAI's first fully retrained base model since GPT-4.5, internally codenamed "Spud," and represents a ground-up rebuild rather than another incremental update on the prior architectural foundation. According to third-party analysis, it moves away from stitched-together modality handlers and instead processes text, images, audio, and video end-to-end within a single unified architecture. That omnimodal redesign is the headline structural change of the release, intended to let one model reason across formats without passing inputs between specialized submodels.

Beyond architecture, the release is framed around tighter hardware and infrastructure integration. The model was reportedly co-designed alongside NVIDIA's GB200-class rack-scale systems, which third-party reporting credits with helping GPT-5.5 match the per-token latency of its predecessor despite a clear capability jump. OpenAI's own Codex tooling was also used to rewrite portions of the serving stack before launch, reportedly yielding faster token generation once the model went live. Taken together, the picture is a flagship aimed at long-context, multi-format assistant workloads, where unified multimodal understanding, sustained reasoning, and high-throughput generation matter more than any single benchmark number.

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openai/gpt-5.5
Release date
Apr 23, 2026
Last updated
Apr 23, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
2025-12-01
Input modalities
Output modalities
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Cost

Input token cost
$5.00
Output token cost
$30.00

Limits

Input tokens
922,000 tokens
Output tokens
128,000 tokens
Context window
1,050,000 tokens

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CoverageBenchmark

Roboflow's vision benchmark of GPT-5.5 reports a shift to a 32x32 patch-based vision encoder that improves handling of high-resolution documents, complex charts, and structured layouts. On the Roboflow Vision Evals suite, GPT-5.5 placed fourth of 63 models at 76.12% overall accuracy, clearing 51 of 67 visual prompt evaluations. Domain strengths included 88.9% document understanding, 86.7% defect detection, and 85.7% object understanding. A clear weak point was precise counting at 30% accuracy, flagged as a limitation for quantitative visual tasks. Roboflow positioned GPT-5.5 as a fit for zero-shot dataset generation, document parsing, and unstructured visual reasoning, with integration available through Roboflow Playground and Workflows. The analysis was dated May 13, 2026, building on OpenAI's April 23, 2026 GPT-5.5 release.

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Official sourceDocumentation

OpenAI's API docs introduce the model as a flagship for complex professional work and coding, positioned as a step above GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 Mini. It supports text and image input, text output, and a reasoning.effort parameter ranging from none to xhigh, with medium as the default. The context window is 1,050,000 tokens with a 128,000-token max output. Pricing is set at $5.00 per million input tokens, $0.50 per million cached input tokens, and $30.00 per million output tokens, with a 2x input and 1.5x output surcharge on prompts exceeding 272K tokens across standard, batch, and flex tiers. Regional data-residency endpoints carry a 10% uplift. Available surfaces include Chat Completions, Responses, Realtime, Realtime translation/transcription, and Live sessions.

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CoverageBenchmark

CodeRabbit's early hands-on testing of GPT-5.5 reports the model is quicker, leaner, and more direct in coding workflows, favoring scoped changes over broad rewrites while preserving existing behavior. In their live code-review agent, GPT-5.5 reached 79.2% expected-issue-found against CodeRabbit's current multi-model review baseline, with the vendor noting that baseline is a combined system, not a single competing model. The reviewers also observed reduced token consumption on long-running agent tasks and faster surfacing of user-facing progress before internal work completes. Practical gains showed up most in debugging-oriented reviews involving access control, error handling, and API behavior, where the model isolated regressions and pointed to preserving fixes. CodeRabbit framed GPT-5.5 as well-suited to teams building agent workflows or asking the model to make real changes in codebases.

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Official sourceBenchmark

OpenRouter's model page for openai/gpt-5.5 documents the current technical state of the GPT-5.5 listing as a frontier-tier OpenAI model with a 1M+ token context window (922K input / 128K output) and both text and image modalities in and out. Pricing on the page is $5 per 1M input and $30 per 1M output at the default ti For developers evaluating the model, the page reports a best-provider P50 latency of 1.85 seconds (Azure) with 18 tokens-per-second throughput and an OpenAI-direct 3.11s / 46 tok/s profile, plus 100% 3-day uptime and 99.25% availability with auto-failover across providers. Benchmark scores per provider are listed as GP

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