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GPT-5.4 Pro vs GPT-5.5 Pro

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Winner summary

GPT-5.5 Pro wins 10 of 10 shared benchmarks. Leads in reasoning · knowledge · math.

Category leads
reasoning·GPT-5.5 Proknowledge·GPT-5.5 Promath·GPT-5.5 Pro
Hype vs Reality
GPT-5.4 Pro
#40 by perf·#9 by attention
DESERVED
GPT-5.5 Pro
#8 by perf·#9 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
1.2x better value than GPT-5.4 Pro
GPT-5.4 Pro
0.6 pts/$
$105.00/M
GPT-5.5 Pro
0.7 pts/$
$105.00/M
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
GPT-5.4 ProGPT-5.5 Pro
ARC-AGI
GPT-5.5 Pro leads by +2.0
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
GPT-5.4 Pro
94.5
GPT-5.5 Pro
96.5
ARC-AGI-2
GPT-5.5 Pro leads by +1.3
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
GPT-5.4 Pro
83.3
GPT-5.5 Pro
84.6
Chess Puzzles
GPT-5.5 Pro leads by +1.4
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
GPT-5.4 Pro
58.6
GPT-5.5 Pro
60.0
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
GPT-5.5 Pro leads by +2.4
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
GPT-5.4 Pro
50.0
GPT-5.5 Pro
52.4
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
GPT-5.5 Pro leads by +2.1
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
GPT-5.4 Pro
37.5
GPT-5.5 Pro
39.6
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
GPT-5.5 Pro leads by +19.5
GPT-5.4 Pro
58.5
GPT-5.5 Pro
78.0
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
GPT-5.5 Pro leads by +5.5
GPT-5.4 Pro
86.8
GPT-5.5 Pro
92.3
GPQA diamond
GPT-5.5 Pro leads by +2.9
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
GPT-5.4 Pro
92.8
GPT-5.5 Pro
95.7
SimpleBench
GPT-5.5 Pro leads by +3.4
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
GPT-5.4 Pro
68.9
GPT-5.5 Pro
72.3
SimpleQA Verified
GPT-5.5 Pro leads by +16.7
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
GPT-5.4 Pro
47.8
GPT-5.5 Pro
64.5
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 ProGPT-5.5 Pro
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
94.596.5
ARC-AGI-2
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
83.384.6
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
58.660.0
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
50.052.4
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
37.539.6
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
58.578.0
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
86.892.3
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
92.895.7
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
68.972.3
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
47.864.5
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-5.4 Pro$30.00$180.001.1M tokens (~525 books)$675.00
OpenAI logoGPT-5.5 Pro$30.00$180.001.1M tokens (~525 books)$675.00