GPT-5.5 Pro vs GPT-5.5 Instant

Side-by-side comparison. Updated 2026-06-04.

Verdict

GPT-5.5 Pro wins on higher overall score (9.5 vs 8.6, +0.9).

  • Larger context window (1050k vs 128k)
GPT-5.5 Pro
by OpenAI
9.5 /10 Elite
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GPT-5.5 Instant
by OpenAI
8.6 /10 Excellent
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At a Glance

Side-by-side comparison of GPT-5.5 Pro and GPT-5.5 Instant
Attribute GPT-5.5 Pro GPT-5.5 Instant
Provider OpenAI OpenAI
Tags Reasoning general
Context 1,050,000 tokens 128,000 tokens
Input price $30.00/1M $2.00/1M
Output price $10.00/1M $10.00/1M
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GPT-5.5 Pro Strengths

GPT-5.5 Instant Strengths

  • Near-frontier quality at speed-optimized pricing
  • Fastest inference in the GPT-5.5 family
  • Strong coding for a cost-efficient variant
  • Good for high-throughput production pipelines
  • Suitable replacement for GPT-5 Turbo in most workloads