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GPT-5.5 vs Kimi K3

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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·#4 by attention
DESERVED
Kimi K3
#51 by perf·#17 by attention
UNDERRATED
Best value
1.5x better value than GPT-5.5
GPT-5.5
4.9 pts/$
$17.50/M
Kimi K3
7.4 pts/$
$8.10/M
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
moonshotai logo
Moonshot AI
$18.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
GPT-5.5Kimi K3
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
Kimi K3
94.5
GPQA diamond
GPT-5.5 leads by +2.8
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
Kimi K3
90.8
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGPT-5.5Kimi K3
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.
93.690.8
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-5.5$5.00$30.00400K tokens (~200 books)$112.50
moonshotai logoKimi K3$2.70$13.501.0M tokens (~524 books)$54.00