Scan to contactGPT-5.5
OpenAI flagship general-purpose model for complex reasoning, coding and high-quality generation
GPT-5.5 is an OpenAI general-purpose model for hard Q&A, complex coding, long-form analysis and agent workflows.
starsCapabilities
visibilityVision understandingcodeFunction callingstreamStreaming outputdata_objectStructured output
paymentsContext and pricing
Context limit1,050,000
Max output128,000
Knowledge cutoff2025-12-01
Input price$5/ 1M tokens
Output price$30/ 1M tokens
Cached input price$0.5/ 1M tokens
descriptionOverview
Overview
GPT-5.5 is a general-purpose model in the official OpenAI model catalog, with model ID gpt-5.5. It should be evaluated for text understanding, generation, coding assistance, structured processing and multimodal product capabilities rather than single-purpose image generation, transcription or TTS.
Best for
Use GPT-5.5 as a core candidate for assistants, complex Q&A, coding, long-form analysis, workflow automation and vision-enabled applications. Before production, compare context length, pricing, latency, tool support and real output quality.
lightbulbUse cases
- Assistants and complex Q&A
- Code generation and code review
- Content generation, summarization and rewriting
- Structured extraction and automation
thumb_upStrengths
- Useful for general production workloads
- Covers text understanding and generation
- Easy to compare with smaller variants
- Good core model for agent and tool workflows
infoLimitations
- Capabilities and pricing depend on official OpenAI documentation
- Higher-quality models usually cost more and add latency
- Complex workflows still need prompts, tools and evaluation
- Not a replacement for dedicated image, transcription or TTS models