GPT-5.5 Pro
GPT-5.5 Pro is a chat model from OpenAI in the GPT-5 family, positioned at the Pro tier, accepting text and image input.
API Pricing
Cheapest on OpenAI — 33% below avg| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M |
|---|---|---|
| $15.00 | $90.00 | |
| $15.00 | $90.00 | |
| $30.00 | $180.00 | |
| $30.00 | $180.00 |
Prices updated daily. Last check: Oct 15, 2026
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Model Details
General
- Creator
- OpenAI
- Family
- GPT-5
- Modalities
- Text, Image
Capabilities
- Open Source
- No
Strengths & Limitations
Strengths
- Multimodal input: accepts both text and images in a single request
- Pro tier within the GPT-5 family, positioned above the standard and lighter GPT-5 variants for harder requests
- Part of OpenAI's GPT-5 line, so it shares the family's API conventions and tooling ecosystem
- Vision input removes the need for a separate OCR or image-understanding service for screenshot and document workflows
- Suited to a tiered routing setup where only the hardest requests are escalated from cheaper GPT-5 siblings
- Available through providers listed on this page, so rates can be compared side by side
Limitations
- We do not currently track a confirmed context window figure for this model — verify limits in OpenAI's documentation
- No throughput or time-to-first-token measurements are recorded in our benchmark data, so latency behavior is unverified here
- Pro-tier models generally consume more compute per request than mid-tier siblings, raising per-call cost
- Higher-effort tiers typically respond more slowly, which makes the model a poor fit for latency-sensitive interactive paths
- Model weights are not distributed for self-hosting, so it is API-only
Key Features
About GPT-5.5 Pro
Common Use Cases
GPT-5.5 Pro fits the subset of a workload where accuracy justifies extra compute per request: multi-step technical reasoning, debugging code that shallower models get wrong, synthesizing long or contradictory source material, and analysis tasks where a wrong answer is expensive to catch downstream. Its image input makes it usable for document and screenshot understanding — reading charts, extracting structure from scanned pages, reviewing UI captures alongside written instructions. Because Pro-tier models cost and latency more per call than mid-tier options, most teams deploy it behind a router: a lighter GPT-5 variant handles routine traffic, and only requests that fail a confidence or complexity check are escalated to GPT-5.5 Pro. It is less appropriate for high-volume classification, bulk summarization, or real-time chat surfaces where a smaller sibling would be adequate.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does GPT-5.5 Pro cost?
Pricing depends on the provider and on the pricing type — input tokens, output tokens, and cached input are usually billed at different rates, and each provider sets its own. Rates also change frequently. Check the pricing table on this page for the current figures from every provider we track for this model.
What is GPT-5.5 Pro best used for?
It suits the hardest requests in a workload: multi-step reasoning, difficult code and debugging problems, synthesis across long or conflicting sources, and vision tasks like reading charts, screenshots, and scanned documents. For routine high-volume traffic, a lighter GPT-5 variant is usually the more economical choice.
How does GPT-5.5 Pro differ from other GPT-5 models?
The Pro designation places it at the higher-effort end of the GPT-5 family, above the standard and lightweight variants. In practice that means more compute spent per request, with correspondingly higher cost and response time. Many teams use it selectively rather than as their default model.
Does GPT-5.5 Pro accept images?
Yes. Our metadata confirms both text and image modalities, so you can send images alongside text in the same prompt — useful for document understanding, chart reading, and screenshot-based workflows.
What is the context window of GPT-5.5 Pro?
We do not currently have a confirmed context window figure for GPT-5.5 Pro in our database, and providers sometimes expose different limits than the model's maximum. Check OpenAI's model documentation and your chosen provider's API reference before sizing long-context workloads.