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GPT-5.5 vs GPT-6 Sol

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Winner summary

GPT-5.5 wins 1 of 2 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge.

Category leads
reasoning·GPT-6 Solknowledge·GPT-5.5
Hype vs Reality
GPT-5.5
#2 by perf·#9 by attention
DESERVED
GPT-6 Sol
#13 by perf·#2 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
2.5x better value than GPT-5.5
GPT-5.5
4.9 pts/$
$17.50/M
GPT-6 Sol
12.4 pts/$
$6.00/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-6 Sol
ARC-AGI
GPT-6 Sol 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-6 Sol
95.5
GPQA diamond
GPT-5.5 leads by +1.2
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-6 Sol
92.4
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGPT-5.5GPT-6 Sol
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
95.095.5
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
93.692.4
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-6 Sol$2.00$10.001.1M tokens (~525 books)$40.00