GPT-5.5 (low)

GPT-5.5 (low)

OpenAI · Released Apr 23, 2026 Professional New
Intelligence #21 / 556
82.0 Our Score
Speed #186 / 257
60.4 tokens / sec
Input #523 / 557
$5.00 per 1M tokens
Output #531 / 557
$30.00 per 1M tokens
Context
Not reported

Analysis Summary

GPT-5.5 (low) sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #21 of 556 published models on overall intelligence. At $5.00 input and $30.00 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market.

Editorial notes

GPT-5.5 low from OpenAI reaches a 50.8 intelligence index with strong coding at 52.1 and agentic performance at 68.1, delivering frontier-tier capability at the standard $5/$30 price point.

Assessed May 14, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence8.8Technical9Value4.5Content7.8
Intelligence 8.8/10
Technical 9/10
Content 7.8/10
Value 4.5/10

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

50.8 Intelligence Index
52.1 Coding Index
68.1 Agentic Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 91% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 31% Humanity's Last Exam
SciCode 51.6% Scientific computing

Technical

TerminalBench Hard 52.3% Agentic terminal tasks
τ²-Bench 83.9% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 64.4% Instruction following
LCR 72% Long-context reasoning

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

ProviderOpenAI
Release Date April 23, 2026
Status Active

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $5.00 $0.005000
Output $30.00 $0.030000

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