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GPT-5.5
Scores reviewed 2026-06-27Prices checked 2026-10-25OpenAI
- OpenAI API
- gpt-5.5
- OpenRouter
- openai/gpt-5.5
- Context
- 1.05M
- Price per 1M
- $5 in / $30 out
- Tooling
- 5/5
- Deploy
- Cloud API
Monthly cost, worked example
| Input | 667,000 tokens × $5 per 1M | $3.34 |
|---|---|---|
| Output | 333,500 tokens × $30 per 1M | $10.01 |
| Total | ~$13.34/mo |
667 requests a month at 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each, about 1M tokens. The recommender uses the same assumption when you don't give your own usage.
Best for
- Agentic workflows and tool calling
- Writing and editing code
- Complex reasoning and analysis
- Long documents (~1.05M context)
Skip if
- You need rock-bottom per-token cost
- You need open weights to self-host
Capability scores
Tool calling5/5
Tooling (1-5): how reliably the model calls tools and follows multi-step instructions. Editorial score from LMFinder, not a benchmark.
Multi-step reasoning5/5
Specifications
- Context window
- 1.05M tokens
- VRAM
- N/A (cloud-hosted)
- License
- proprietary
- Pricing
- $5 in / $30 out per 1M
- Deployment
- Cloud API
- Docs
- Model docs ↗
Our take
GPT-5.5 from OpenAI offers a 1.05M-token context window and is well-suited to strong tool calling, multi-step reasoning, coding, long-context work. Pricing is $5 in / $30 out per 1M, billed per token through the provider API.
Watch for the trade-offs: output pricing is on the higher side; weights are closed, so you cannot self-host.
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