AI Tool Profile
GPT-5.5
OpenAI released GPT-5.5, a frontier model for agentic coding, computer use, knowledge work, and research workflows across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.
Before you buy
Best for: Developers, enterprise teams, researchers, and operators who need a stronger model for long-running coding, tool use, analysis, and computer-based work.
Price: USD API: US$5.00 input / US$30.00 output per 1M tokens
Included: GPT-5.5 is OpenAI's flagship API model for complex reasoning, coding, and professional work, with text and image input and text output described in official OpenAI model docs.
Main limits: Not open-weight or local in this profile; production suitability depends on API cost, latency, policy, and workload tests. Standard list rates; cache writes, tools, long-context premiums, regional processing and other service tiers can change the bill.
What Kingy showed: Related coverage: GPT-5.5 vs Claude Opus 4.8: The Evidence-Based 2026 Comparison. This review does not treat that article as a new test of this exact model, plan or current release.
Buying details checked 2026-10-23 with region and currency stated above. Historical demonstrations and the broader fact ledger keep their own dates.
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Verification & Sources
- Evidence state
- Recheck due
- Source links
- 3
- Freshness
- Needs recheck: checked June 8, 2026
- Last updated
- October 23, 2026
What this evidence state means
- Definition
- The claim was previously checked, but its review window expired or a material change may have invalidated it.
- Required provenance
- The prior evidence and check date are retained, together with the expiry or change signal that triggered recheck.
- Owner
- Kingy freshness queue owner and assigned editorial reviewer
- Freshness rule
- This is already outside its freshness rule. It must not be presented as current until reviewed against current evidence.
- Disputes and corrections
- Use “Suggest a correction” on the record. Kingy editorial reviews the cited evidence, records material corrections, and changes or removes the state when it is not supported.
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Who should consider it
Developers, enterprise teams, researchers, and operators who need a stronger model for long-running coding, tool use, analysis, and computer-based work. OpenAI released GPT-5.5, a frontier model for agentic coding, computer use, knowledge work, and research workflows across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.
Plan, price and billing scope
USD API: US$5.00 input / US$30.00 output per 1M tokens. GPT-5.5 is OpenAI's flagship API model for complex reasoning, coding, and professional work, with text and image input and text output described in official OpenAI model docs. Prices use the currency and billing term stated here. Where a numeric rate, region or current entitlement could not be verified, it remains explicit; no checkout was completed.
Limits that affect the decision
Not open-weight or local in this profile; production suitability depends on API cost, latency, policy, and workload tests. Standard list rates; cache writes, tools, long-context premiums, regional processing and other service tiers can change the bill.
What the existing evidence shows
Related coverage: GPT-5.5 vs Claude Opus 4.8: The Evidence-Based 2026 Comparison. This review does not treat that article as a new test of this exact model, plan or current release. Product coverage; original publication date and evidence scope retained. Read the related article.
Sources and buying-review date
Buying review completed October 23, 2026. This is a source-based buying assessment. No paid product test, new generation, checkout or performance benchmark was performed. Vendor descriptions and historical examples remain distinct from independently measured results. The date does not renew the broader canonical fact ledger.
- Official source: developers.openai.com
- Official source: openai.com
- Official source: developers.openai.com
- Official source: chatgpt.com
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Earlier profile, sources and dates
This older record retains its original scope. Current buying qualifications above take precedence where terms have changed.
OpenAI released GPT-5.5, a frontier model for agentic coding, computer use, knowledge work, and research workflows across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.
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Launch History
Introducing GPT-5.5
OpenAI released GPT-5.5, a frontier model for agentic coding, computer use, knowledge work, and research workflows across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.
- Launch readiness
- 8.0 / 10
- Demo evidence
- Not scored yet
- Creator-story fit
- Not scored yet
Score definitions and rubric
These are launch-record readiness heuristics, not product ratings.
Launch readiness
How complete and reviewable the launch record is, not the quality of the product.
Inputs and weights: Launch date 15%; qualifying source 10%; what launched 10%; demo 15%; category 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%; traction evidence 10%; creator or audience fit 10%.
Evidence inputs: Reviewed launch metadata, public source links, demo links, taxonomy, audience, editorial notes, and recorded traction signals.
Demo evidence
Whether the record contains useful, reviewable demonstration evidence; it is not a rating of product output quality.
Inputs and weights: Working demo URL 45%; video walkthrough 25%; clear description of what launched 10%; audience 10%; editorial assessment 10%.
Evidence inputs: Demo and video URLs plus the reviewed launch description, audience, and editorial notes.
Creator-story fit
Whether a launch has enough demonstrable evidence and audience relevance for a useful creator story; it does not predict views or guarantee coverage.
Inputs and weights: Demo evidence 25%; visual creator category 15%; audience 15%; editorial assessment 15%; traction evidence 10%; pricing clarity 10%; API or open-weight evidence 10%.
Evidence inputs: Reviewed demo, category, audience, editorial, traction, pricing, API, and open-weight fields.
- Scale
- 0.0–10.0. A present qualifying input receives its published weight; a missing input receives zero. Scores are rounded to one decimal.
- Assigned by
- Suggested by the deterministic field-completeness helper and assigned or approved by a Kingy editorial reviewer.
- Rubric and check date
- Rubric version P0-2026-08-10. The record’s “Last verified” date is the score check date. Checked: 2026-06-08.
- Confidence and missing data
- Confidence depends on source completeness. “Not scored yet” means no reviewed value; “Needs review” means the value or score set failed validation.
- Freshness
- Recalculate after a material launch, source, demo, pricing, audience, or traction change and during the record freshness review.
- Disputes
- Use “Suggest a correction” on the record and cite the relevant evidence. Commercial relationships cannot buy or alter a score.
OpenAI released GPT-5.5, a frontier model for agentic coding, computer use, and research workflows, shipping across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API with documented rates…
Kingy coverage
Kingy AI articles about GPT-5.5, newest first.
- NewsOpenAI Daybreak Explained: Inside GPT‑5.5‑Cyber, Codex Security, and the New Frontier of AI Cyber Defense
- NewsGPT-5.5 Instant Is Here: OpenAI Just Upgraded ChatGPT’s Default Brain
- NewsOpenAI GPT-5.5: The AI That Works Like a Real Coworker
- NewsThe Party Invite Nobody Saw Coming: Sam Altman Tells Elon Musk to Show Up at the GPT-5.5 Launch
- NewsOpenAI’s GPT-5.5-Cyber: The AI Model That’s Not For You (And Why That’s Actually a Good Thing)
- NewsGPT-5.5 Prompting Guide: Write for Outcomes, Not Ritual
- NewsGPT-5.5 Is Here — And It’s Playing a Whole New Game
- NewsGPT‑5.5 vs. Claude Opus 4.7: A Benchmark-by-Benchmark Field Guide to the New Frontier
More coverage (3)
- NewsClaude Mythos Preview vs. GPT‑5.5: A Benchmark‑by‑Benchmark Showdown Between the Two Most Important Frontier Models of April 2026
- NewsGPT-5.5 Benchmarks Revealed: The 9 Numbers That Prove ChatGPT 5.5 Just Changed the AI Race
- NewsIntroducing GPT-5.5: OpenAI’s New Class of Intelligence for Real Work and Agentic AI