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GPT-5.5 Overview

GPT-5.5 is a multimodal large language model released by OpenAI on April 23, 2026, engineered for autonomous, multi-step knowledge work and agentic workflows. It accepts text, images, and code as input, featuring enhanced spatial reasoning and visual grounding to support its computer use capabilities for operating software and navigating UI elements. Built to execute complex workflows end-to-end, the model interprets loosely defined tasks, selects appropriate tools, and performs self-verification with minimal user intervention. It is available in a standard version, a Thinking mode for extended reasoning budgets, and a Pro variant that uses parallel test-time compute for maximum precision on complex tasks.

Co-optimized with NVIDIA for GB200 NVL72 infrastructure, GPT-5.5 delivers per-token latency comparable to its predecessor GPT-5.4 while maintaining a 1-million-token context window. Despite increased capability, the model achieves greater token efficiency in coding and data analysis workflows, often completing tasks with fewer total tokens than previous versions. OpenAI reports a 60% reduction in hallucination rate compared to GPT-5.4, improving reliability for accuracy-sensitive applications. API access is available via the Responses and Chat Completions endpoints at $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens, double the unit price of GPT-5.4.

GPT-5.5 Interactive Demo

GPT-5.5 Details & Performance

Details

Resources

Vision Tasks

CaptioningClassificationOCRObject DetectionVision LanguageVisual Question Answering

Features

Multimodal VisionLLMs with Vision Capabilities

Usage

Past 30 Days

Performance

Avg. Latency

Arena Rankings

GPT-5.5 Vision Evals

Vision Evals is Roboflow's ground-truth benchmark: every model runs the same real-world samples across six vision tasks, and answers are scored against ground truth.

Evals updated July 10, 2026Pricing updated July 21, 2026

Overall score#8 of 16
71.8%
Avg cost / sample#14 of 16
$0.021
Avg speed / sample#16 of 16
10.4s
Avg tokens / sample
2.2K

Strengths and weaknesses

GPT-5.5 averages 71.8% across the six Vision Evals tasks, ranking #8 of 16 models overall.

Its weakest relative showing is Object Detection, ranking #15 of 16 at 13.8%.

At $0.021 per sample it is the 14th cheapest of the 16 benchmarked models, and its average inference time of 10.4s per sample makes it the 16th fastest.

Performance profile

Field medianGPT-5.5

Field medians: Object Detection 41.5%, Counting 62.2%, Identification 84.4%, OCR 89.1%, Data Extraction 85.6%, Reasoning 76.1%.

Results by task

TaskScoreField (0 to 100)RankCost / sampleSpeed
Object Detection
13.8%
#15 of 16$0.02914.1s
Counting
64.9%
#7 of 16$0.01510.0s
Identification
90.6%
#6 of 16$0.00854.2s
OCR
91.2%
#5 of 16$0.0239.5s
Data Extraction
87.6%
#6 of 16$0.0104.7s
Reasoning
82.6%
#5 of 16$0.0125.8s

Price vs. performance

Score vs. cost

Overall benchmark score against estimated cost per sample. Upper-left is the sweet spot: high quality at low cost.

16 models on the current benchmark · scores and efficiency pooled across all six tasks · GPT-5.5 highlighted

GPT-5.5 scores from a single evaluation run · Methodology

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GPT-5.5 Pricing

GPT-5.5 costs $5.00 per 1M input tokens and $30.00 per 1M output tokens.

Input$5.00 / 1M tokens
Output$30.00 / 1M tokens
Cached input$0.500 / 1M tokens

Pricing updated Jul 21, 2026

Alternatives to GPT-5.5

Other models worth comparing for similar use cases.

Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.7
Claude Opus 4.7 is a proprietary multimodal language model developed by Anthropic, released on April 16, 2026. It is designed for agentic coding, long-horizon task execution, and enterprise knowledge work. The model supports text and vision inputs and operates with a context window of up to 1,000,000 tokens. It introduces adaptive thinking, which dynamically allocates reasoning based on task complexity, along with configurable effort controls including a new xhigh setting that sits between the existing high and max levels. It achieves 87.6% on SWE-bench Verified and 78.0% on OSWorld-Verified, reflecting strong performance on autonomous software engineering and computer use tasks respectively.Compared to Claude Opus 4.6, version 4.7 shows improved instruction following and higher reliability in extended agentic tasks. Vision capabilities now support high-resolution inputs up to 2,576px on the long edge (~3.75 megapixels), more than three times the resolution of prior Claude models, enabling finer interpretation of dense diagrams, UI screenshots, and document layouts. These improvements, combined with self-verification on long-running tasks and a new task budget system for controlling agentic loops, make it well-suited for complex software engineering, technical analysis, and multimodal vision workflows.
Grok
Grok 4
Grok 4, released by xAI on July 9, 2025, is the fourth-generation model in the Grok family and the most advanced to date. It is multimodal, supporting text, vision, tool use, and real-time web search, with a reported 256,000-token context window for long-form reasoning and document analysis. Its training data extends through November 2024, making it the most up-to-date Grok model at launch.The lineup includes Grok 4 Generalist for broad tasks, Grok 4 Heavy for higher-capacity reasoning, and Grok 4 Code optimized for programming and debugging. A notable feature is its always-on “Think” mode, designed for deeper multi-step reasoning. While xAI has not disclosed parameter counts, Grok 4 is positioned to compete with frontier models like GPT-5 and Claude 4, balancing real-time knowledge via web integration with structured tool use. It is best suited for coding, complex reasoning, and multimodal AI assistants.

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Other versions in the same family as GPT-5.5.

GPT-5.5 License

Proprietary

License terms and commercial-use guidance for GPT-5.5.

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Frequently Asked Questions About GPT-5.5 Vision

Yes. GPT-5.5 accepts image input and handles OCR, data extraction, object counting, identification, visual reasoning, and object detection. On Roboflow's Vision Evals its strongest task is OCR at 91.2% (#5 of 16). You can test it on your own image in the demo above.

Yes, and it is one of the model's strongest vision skills: its transcriptions match the ground truth 91.2% on average (#5 of 16) on Vision Evals OCR. Pulling specific fields out of documents (data extraction) scores 87.6%.

Not its strength. On Vision Evals, GPT-5.5 scores 13.8% mAP@50 on object detection (#15 of 16) and 64.9% exact-match accuracy on object counting. For production counting or precise localization, pairing it with a specialized detector like RF-DETR or your own trained model in a Roboflow Workflow is usually more reliable: detect the objects, then count the detections.

On our benchmark's task mix, GPT-5.5 averages $0.02 per sample at $5.00 per 1M input and $30.00 per 1M output tokens (#14 of 16 on cost), with an average speed of 10.4s per sample across the benchmark. Actual cost depends on your images and prompts.

On the overall Vision Evals ranking, GPT-5.5 sits #8 of 16 at 71.8%, just behind GPT-5.6 Terra (73.5%) and just ahead of Gemini 2.5 Pro (67.9%). See the full side-by-side: GPT-5.5 vs GPT-5.6 Terra.