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GPT-5.5 vs gpt-oss-120b

Head to head on 19 shared benchmarks, with price, context window, and release dates.

Benchmark scores

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Model
GPT-5.5

OpenAI

68.4%86.0%1844elo78.276.8%13.7%46.1%84.7%82.5%81.1%73.0%87.7%96.3%87.7%88.6%47.3%75.0%49.2%69.3%--86.2%54.2%12.9%--36.2%90.0%100.0%1315elo34.0%51.8%5.7%51.7%44.8%24.9%1769elo15.1%-51.8%2.1%---92.8%49.1%86.9%-68.8%78.7%45.3%100.0%50.0%51.5%4.2--58.6%75.7%83.4%-57.4%68.1%69.8%61.9%
gpt-oss-120b

OpenAI

58.2%13.0%959elo35.867.2%5.9%58.3%51.0%60.2%38.8%50.3%48.6%68.9%39.2%77.5%36.0%71.6%5.3%45.0%41.8%66.7%---38.9%7.6%------------57.6--70.7%1.621.53---80.0%-------97.9%26.0%---65.6%---49.6%
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AttributeGPT-5.5

OpenAI

gpt-oss-120b

OpenAI

DescriptionGPT-5.5 is an AI model from OpenAI.GPT-Oss 120b is an AI model from OpenAI, released with open weights.
FamilyGPTGPT
Params--
Open weightsclosedopen
Licenseproprietaryapache-2.0
Released23 Apr 20265 Aug 2025
Context1,050,000131,072
Input $/1M$5.00$0.15
Output $/1M$30.00$0.60
Cache read $/1M$0.500$0.030
Cache write $/1M--
Speed0 tok/s186 tok/s
Latency0.00 s0.50 s
Modalitiesfile, image, texttext
Providers--
PublisherOpenAIOpenAI
Reported scores
GPQA Diamond67.2% (AA)
LiveCodeBench70.7% (AA)
MMLU-Pro77.5% (AA)
SciCode36.0% (AA)

FAQ

Is GPT-5.5 or gpt-oss-120b better?
Across the 19 benchmarks both models report on Sophon, GPT-5.5 leads on 18 of them. Which one is "better" depends on the benchmark - the table above shows every shared score.
How do GPT-5.5 and gpt-oss-120b compare on GPQA Diamond?
GPT-5.5 scores 76.8% and gpt-oss-120b scores 67.2% on GPQA Diamond.
Which is cheaper, GPT-5.5 or gpt-oss-120b?
gpt-oss-120b is cheaper at $0.60 per million output tokens against $30.00 for GPT-5.5 - about 50.0x.
When were GPT-5.5 and gpt-oss-120b released?
GPT-5.5 was released 23 Apr 2026 by OpenAI. gpt-oss-120b was released 5 Aug 2025 by OpenAI.

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