GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026)
Analysis Summary
GPT-5.5 Instant is a fast-positioned OpenAI variant with good measured reasoning and coding, alongside useful long-context performance. Its coding result makes it relevant to development assistance and technical drafting, while the instruction and general reasoning profile can support routine content tasks when human review remains in the loop.
The agentic measurement is much weaker than its coding result, and the supplied record does not list tool use, function calling, vision, or context capacity. That limits its suitability for autonomous workflows and multimodal client operations. Pricing is also high relative to its measured capability, particularly for output, so it is better reserved for responsive, quality-sensitive tasks than used as a default bulk model.
Assessed August 9, 2026
Editorial notes
GPT-5.5 Instant delivers good coding and reasoning with useful long-context performance, but its limited agentic result and high listed pricing make it less attractive for broad client automation.
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DFO Verdict
GPT-5.5 Instant delivers good coding and reasoning with useful long-context performance, but its limited agentic result and high listed pricing make it less attractive for broad client automation.
Benchmark scores
Magenta = intelligence · Ink = technical/agentic · Cyan = content & long-context · Grey = community benchmarks. Data: Artificial Analysis, Hugging Face.
29.2 Intelligence Index·39.4 Coding Index·11.1 Agentic Index
How GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) compares
GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) ranks #125 of 420 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #86 of 193 for coding, #107 of 175 for agentic tasks. At $5.00 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 8% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on content. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $5.00 | $0.005000 |
| Output | $30.00 | $0.030000 |
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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.
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How much does GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) cost?
GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) costs $5.00 per million input tokens and $30.00 per million output tokens.
Is GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) ranks #86 of 193 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.
Who created GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026)?
GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) is developed by OpenAI and was released on June 25, 2026.
