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OpenAI · GPTreleased 2026-04-23proprietaryupdated 24 days ago

OpenAI's smartest and most intuitive model — successor to GPT-5, with major coding, research, and document workflow gains. GPT-5.5 Pro variant also available for heavier reasoning.

Specifications

Context window
400,000 tokens
Modality
text, vision, audio
License
proprietary
Family
GPT
Release date
2026-04-23

Links

Provider status

OpenAI APIPartial System Degradation
30-day uptime100.00%
View OpenAI's status page →

Timeline

  1. Released

    Initial public availability.

  2. Pricing changes, lineage updates, and new benchmark results appear here as they happen. See the releases feed for the latest vendor activity.

API pricing

TierInput / 1M tokensOutput / 1M tokensCache readAs of
standard$5.00$30.00$0.502026-04-23 · source ↗

Looking for consumer subscriptions? See OpenAI's plans →

Benchmarks

Model Index →
BenchmarkScoreSettingMeasuredSource
MMLU-Pro

general knowledge

87.6%5-shot CoT2026-04-23source ↗
GPQA Diamond

reasoning

89.4%0-shot CoT2026-04-23source ↗
HumanEval

coding

96.8%pass@12026-04-23source ↗
Aider Polyglot

coding

89.7%edit + test2026-04-25source ↗
AIME 2025

math

94.2%CoT max-thinking2026-04-23source ↗
LiveCodeBench

coding

78.9%pass@1, post-cutoff2026-04-30source ↗
MMMU

multimodal

78.4%val2026-04-23source ↗

Want to see how GPT-5.5 ranks across these? Open the Model Index leaderboard →

Infrastructure context

All intelligence →

Compute, silicon, and capex events that shape GPT-5.5's economics.

  • Data center

    Microsoft Fairwater Wisconsin: dedicated 1.5GW OpenAI training campus

    Microsoft's Mount Pleasant, WI "Fairwater" campus — disclosed as a dedicated OpenAI training facility — reached 1.5GW configuration by Q1 2026 with NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 racks. The site uses closed-loop water cooling to reduce evaporative loss. Total Microsoft AI capex run-rate for FY26 is ~$110B.

    Accelerators: GB200
    Power: 1.50 GW
    Location: Mount Pleasant, WI
    Microsoft FY26 Q2 disclosure
  • Data centerdirect

    Stargate Abilene: OpenAI + Oracle + SoftBank $500B compute pact, first 1.2GW campus

    Stargate is a 4-year, $500B compute commitment announced January 2025, jointly funded by OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank, and MGX. The flagship 1.2GW Abilene, TX campus came online in phases through 2025–2026, anchored by Oracle Cloud. Additional sites in Wisconsin and New Mexico are under construction. Powers OpenAI's training fleet for GPT-5.5 and beyond.

    Power: 1.20 GW
    Capex: $500B
    Location: Abilene, TX
    OpenAI / White House announcement

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