OpenAI: GPT-5.5
🇺🇸 OpenAI · GPT-5.5
Overview
OpenAI: GPT-5.5 is a large language model API from OpenAI, part of its GPT-5.5 model family. With $5.00 per million input tokens and $30.00 per million output tokens, it is a premium-tier model where output volume is the main cost to watch. Output tokens cost about 6× as much as input, so prompt-heavy workloads run noticeably cheaper than generation-heavy ones. An exceptionally large 1.05M-token context window (≈1,575 pages of text) means entire repositories or document collections can be processed without chunking. Beyond plain text it also accepts File, Image input, so it can be applied to multimodal tasks rather than text alone. On Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index it scores 55 (A grade), a useful proxy for its general reasoning strength relative to the other models tracked here. All prices on this page reflect OpenRouter's routed rates and are re-synced automatically every day; confirm against the provider's official pricing before committing to production.
| Dimension | Unit | Price (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Input | per 1M tokens | $5.00 |
| Output | per 1M tokens | $30.00 |
| Cached Input | per 1M tokens | $0.500 |
| Web Search | per search | $0.010 |
- Provider
- OpenAI
- Model Family
- GPT-5.5
- Version String
- openai/gpt-5.5
- Status
- Active
- Modality
- File, Image, Text
- Context Window
- 1,050,000 tokens
- Output Limit
- 128,000 tokens
Index Metrics
Cross-domain capability indexes evaluated by Artificial Analysis — Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Data source: Artificial Analysis
Performance Metrics
Real-world benchmarks, updated every 72 hours by Artificial Analysis — Artificial Analysis
Use Case Analysis
Model strengths, weaknesses, and ideal use cases based on benchmarks and official documentation
Strength
- Frontier Reasoning & Coding OpenAI smartest model. Terminal-Bench 2.0 82.7%, SWE-Bench Pro 58.6%. Official
- Token Efficiency More intelligent and much more token efficient than GPT-5.4. Better results with fewer tokens. Official
Best For
- Complex Professional Work Coding use cases, tool-heavy agents, grounded assistants, long-context retrieval. Official
- Agentic Workflows Tool-heavy or long-running workflows requiring sustained reasoning and multi-turn interactions. Official
Weakness
- Higher Pricing $5 per 1M input tokens and $30 per 1M output tokens. Official
Not Recommended
- Cost-Sensitive Workloads Use GPT-5.4 or GPT-5.4-mini for better cost-efficiency. Official
90-Day Price Trend
Input / Output price (USD per 1M tokens)
Past 90 days of records; every price change is shown here
| Date | Dimension | Price (USD) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $30.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $5.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $30.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $5.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $30.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $5.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $30.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $5.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $30.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $5.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $30.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $5.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $30.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $5.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $30.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $5.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $30.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $5.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $30.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $5.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $30.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $5.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.500 | OpenRouter | |
| Output | $30.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Input | $5.00 | OpenRouter | |
| Web Search | $0.010 | OpenRouter | |
| Cached Input | $0.500 | OpenRouter |
Key Insights
Key data points from this page for quick reference and citation.
- OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Input price: $5/M tokens
- OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Output price: $30/M tokens
- Context window: 1,050,000 tokens
- Provider: OpenAI
- Model family: GPT-5.5
- Modalities: File, Image, Text
- Data source: OpenRouter, updated daily