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GPT-5.5 vs GPT-5.4 Pro

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

GPT-5.5 wins 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Leads in reasoning · knowledge.

Category leads
reasoning·GPT-5.5knowledge·GPT-5.5
Hype vs Reality
GPT-5.5
#2 by perf·no signal
QUIET
GPT-5.4 Pro
#26 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
7.6x better value than GPT-5.4 Pro
GPT-5.5
4.9 pts/$
$17.50/M
GPT-5.4 Pro
0.6 pts/$
$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-5.5GPT-5.4 Pro
ARC-AGI
GPT-5.5 leads by +0.5
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
GPT-5.5
95.0
GPT-5.4 Pro
94.5
GPQA diamond
GPT-5.5 leads by +0.8
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
GPT-5.5
93.6
GPT-5.4 Pro
92.8
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGPT-5.5GPT-5.4 Pro
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
95.094.5
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
93.692.8
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-5.5$5.00$30.00400K tokens (~200 books)$112.50
OpenAI logoGPT-5.4 Pro$30.00$180.001.1M tokens (~525 books)$675.00