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GPT-5.5: API Pricing, Context Window & Benchmarks

GPT-5.5 is a language model from OpenAI, released in April 2026, with multimodal input, a 1.1M-token context window, and pricing from $5.00/M input, $0.500/M cached input, $30.00/M output.

GPT-5.5 is OpenAI's smartest model yet, designed for real work across agentic coding, computer use, knowledge work, and early scientific research. It matches GPT-5.4 per-token latency in real-world serving while reaching a much higher

Input
TextImage
Output
Text

GPT-5.5 benchmarks

Capability tiers

Standing within each category, adjusted for leaderboard depth.

Real tasks performance

High-confidence performance for GPT-5.5 across real-world prompt categories. Only 95% intervals at most 4 points wide are shown.

Performance by conversation depth

How GPT-5.5 holds up as conversations get longer.

Quality Tracker

GPT-5.5 Performance Across Datasets

Scores sourced from the model's scorecard, paper, or official blog posts

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GPT-5.5 pricing

Providers

GPT-5.5 starts at $5.00 per million input tokens and $30.00 per million output tokens via OpenAI. Reused prompt prefixes cost $0.500 per million cached input tokens.

ProviderInput $/MCached input $/MOutput $/MContext in / outTTFT p95 sOutput p5 c/sModalities in / out
OpenAI logoOpenAI
$5.00$0.500$30.001.1M/128.0K
4.56
135
/

Cached input is the discounted price for prompt tokens served from a provider cache. TTFT is time to first token. Output is characters per second; p5 is the sustained floor exceeded by 95% of observed requests.

GPT-5.5 context window

Input and output token limits for GPT-5.5, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

InputOutput
1.1Mtokens
128Ktokens
1.6k pages of text
1.1M
8K128K1M

GPT-5.5 API

POST/v1/chat/completions

Run a request to see the response

Use it in your code

Billed at $5.00 input / $0.50 cached input / $30.00 output per 1M tokens through the LLM Stats gateway.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
    base_url="https://gateway.llm-stats.com/v1"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gpt-5.5",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "What is machine learning?"}
    ]
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Need an API key? Create one above in the playground, or read the API documentation.

GPT-5.5 latency

GPT-5.5 time to first token, sustained output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic over the trailing 7 days.

Provider operational metrics

Time to first token, output throughput, and failed-request rate from live API traffic

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GPT-5.5 examples

Recent arena outputs from GPT-5.5, picked from the highest-ranked matchups.

GPT-5.5 license

GPT-5.5 is a proprietary model available under its provider's product and API terms, has a knowledge cutoff of December 2025.

License
Proprietary
Hosted access
Knowledge cutoff
December 2025

Proprietary license - usage restrictions apply

GPT-5.5 resources

Official sources for GPT-5.5: api documentation, official playground, official launch post.

GPT-5.5 vs other models

The most-compared alternatives to GPT-5.5 are GLM-5.1, Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Opus 4.8. Open any pair side-by-side for benchmarks, pricing, context, and latency.

Models like GPT-5.5

Models ranked just above and below GPT-5.5 by LLM Stats score.

 

GLM-5.1

Score pending
 

Claude Opus 4.6

Score pending
 

Claude Opus 4.8

Score pending
 

Claude Opus 4.7

Score pending
 

Kimi K2-Thinking-0905

Score pending
 

Kimi K3

Score pending

FAQ

Common questions about GPT-5.5.

When was GPT-5.5 released?

GPT-5.5 was released on April 23, 2026 by OpenAI. This is the official GPT-5.5 release date tracked on LLM Stats.

How much does GPT-5.5 cost?

GPT-5.5 costs $5.00 per million input tokens, $0.50 per million cached input tokens, $30.00 per million output tokens through the LLM Stats API, which works with any OpenAI-compatible SDK. Across tracked providers, the lowest price is $5.00 per million input tokens via OpenAI. That provider charges $0.50 per million cached input tokens.

Is GPT-5.5 available via API?

Yes. GPT-5.5 is available through the LLM Stats API and works with any OpenAI-compatible SDK — point your client at the gateway base URL and pass the model name. It is served by 1 provider tracked on LLM Stats.

Who created GPT-5.5?

GPT-5.5 was created by OpenAI.

What is the license for GPT-5.5?

GPT-5.5 is released under the Proprietary license.

What is the knowledge cutoff date for GPT-5.5?

GPT-5.5 has a knowledge cutoff of December 2025, meaning it was trained on data up to that point and may not know about events after it.

Is GPT-5.5 multimodal?

Yes, GPT-5.5 is multimodal and can accept both text and images as input.

What is GPT-5.5 latency?

GPT-5.5 p95 time to first token is 4.56 seconds via OpenAI over the trailing 7 days. Lower time to first token means the model begins responding sooner for chat, agents and API workloads.

Where can I use GPT-5.5?

GPT-5.5 is available through 1 provider including OpenAI.

Where is the GPT-5.5 paper or technical report?

GPT-5.5 has a paper or technical report available at https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-5/. Use that source for architecture, training, release and evaluation details.

What models should I compare GPT-5.5 against?

Common GPT-5.5 comparisons include GPT-5.5 vs GLM-5.1, GPT-5.5 vs Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5.5 vs Claude Opus 4.8. Compare them side by side for benchmark scores, pricing, context window, latency and API availability.