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GPT-5.5 Pro openai

Closed weights API only frontier listed on OpenRouter 2026-04-24 (184d ago) · source Last verified 2026-10-25 06:51 UTC Docs ↗ OpenRouter ↗

Release timeline

Stages observed by the nightly radar: announced → API only → weights public → served by third parties. Each entry carries the source it was seen at.

  1. 2026-04-24 · API only source
    seeded from the earliest dated observation when first seen · observed 2026-10-07 20:20 UTC

Description

GPT-5.5 Pro is OpenAI’s high-capability model optimized for deep reasoning and accuracy on complex, high-stakes workloads. It features a 1M+ token context window (922K input, 128K output) with support for...

via OpenRouter listing · observed 2026-10-24 21:26 UTC. The listing text is the provider's own description, not an assessment.

Where to run 1 providers · 2 endpoints

Hosted endpoints observed for GPT-5.5 Pro, sorted by input price (USD per million tokens). Each row names its observer and date; prices change daily, so check the source before quoting. Cheapest observed input price: $15.00/M.

ProviderModel refContextQuant$/M in$/M outtok/sTTFTToolsStatusObserved
OpenAI
openrouter
openai/gpt-5.5-pro 1.0M unknown $15.00 $90.00 — — yes live 2026-10-24
OpenAI
openrouter
openai/gpt-5.5-pro 1.0M unknown $30.00 $180.00 — — yes live 2026-10-24

No third-party providers observed beyond the lab's own endpoints.

Facts

Context length1,050,000 tokens (1.0M) · OpenRouter listing
Modalitiesfile + image + text → text
Max completion tokens128,000
Knowledge cutoff2025-12-01
Supported parametersinclude_reasoning, max_tokens, reasoning, reasoning_effort, response_format, seed, structured_outputs, tool_choice, tools, verbosity
OpennessClosed weights · closed lab
StageAPI only
Confidencemedium
Pricing (USD per M tokens) in $30.00 · out $180.00
OpenRouter list price (cheapest live endpoint) · source · observed 2026-10-24 21:26 UTC

Open alternatives 5

Nearest open-weights models by modality, context and price on this watch list. Not a quality ranking.

ModelOrgParamsContext$/M inLicenseWhy it is here
Qwen3.5-4B Qwen 4.66B 256K — apache-2.0 vision input
Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct meta-llama 10.7B — — llama3.2 vision input
Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct Qwen 4.44B 256K — apache-2.0 vision input
Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct Qwen 2.13B 256K — apache-2.0 vision input
gemma-4-E4B-it google 8.00B 128K — apache-2.0 vision input

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Radar run: 2026-10-25 06:51 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25 06:51 UTC