GPT-5.5 vs OpenAI o4: Fast Flagship vs Reasoning Monster

GPT-5.5OpenAI o4
arenaElo14321438
humanEval94.294
sweBench6672
mmlu9392.5
gpqa68.787.1
aime9294
Price in/out ($/M)$12 / $48$12 / $48

Our verdict

o4 destroys GPT-5.5 on GPQA (87% vs 69%) but thinks for seconds to minutes per reply. GPT-5.5 wins on everyday throughput, multimodality and cost per interaction. Route hard reasoning to o4, everything else to GPT-5.5.

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