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GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

OpenAI released GPT-5.5 Instant on June 25, 2026, a reasoning model with a 400k-token context window and knowledge cutoff of August 2025. Priced at $5.00 per 1M input tokens and $30.00 per 1M output tokens, it supports text and image input and outputs text, positioning it as an expensive but high-performance option for complex tasks.

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GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
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API Provider Benchmarks

Model summary

IntelligenceUpdated

Speed

Price

Cache Hit Price

Verbosity

GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) supports text and image input, outputs text, and has a 400k tokens context window with knowledge up to August 2025.

Pricing for GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) is $5.00 per 1M input tokens (expensive, average: $1.55) and $30.00 per 1M output tokens (expensive, average: $8.05).

Reasoning Yes This page shows the reasoning version of this model. A non-reasoning variant may also exist.
Input modality Supports: text, image
Output modality Supports: text
Knowledge cutoff Aug 31, 2025
Context window 400k ~600 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font

Metrics are compared against models of the same class:

  • Non-reasoning models → compared only with other non-reasoning models
  • Reasoning models → compared across both reasoning and non-reasoning
  • Open weights models → compared only with other open weights models of the same size class:
- Tiny: ≤4B parameters
- Small: 4B–40B parameters
- Medium: 40B–150B parameters
- Large: >150B parameters
  • Proprietary models → compared across proprietary and open weights models of the same price range, using a blended 3:1 input/output price ratio:

  • <$0.15 per 1M tokens

  • $0.15–$1 per 1M tokens

  • $1 per 1M tokens Highlights

IntelligenceUpdated #

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index by Open Weights / Proprietary

Intelligence Evaluations

[GDPval-AA v2](/evaluations/gdpval-aa)Updated

Agentic real-world work tasks, (Elo-500)/2000

[𝜏³-Banking](/evaluations/tau3-banking)New

Agentic tool use

Agentic coding & terminal use

Coding

Reasoning & knowledge

Scientific reasoning

Physics reasoning

Knowledge

1 - hallucination rate

Long context reasoning

[AA-Briefcase](/evaluations/aa-briefcase)New

Agentic knowledge work, (Elo-500)/2000

Instruction following

Long-horizon agentic tasks

Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis

Visual reasoning

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AA-Briefcase Elo

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Artificial Analysis Openness Index: Score

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Intelligence vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task

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Output Tokens per Intelligence Index Task

Price and CostUpdated #

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Cost to Run Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output

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Context Window

SpeedUpdated #

Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)

Output Speed

Time per Intelligence Index Task

Latency #

Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token

Latency: Time To First Answer Token

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Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed

End-to-End Response Time

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Model Size: Total and Active Parameters

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Common questions about GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026)

GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) was released on June 25, 2026.

GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) was created by OpenAI.

GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) costs $5.00 per 1M input tokens (at the higher end, median: $1.55) and $30.00 per 1M output tokens (at the higher end, median: $8.05), based on OpenAI's API.

GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) costs $5.00 per 1M input tokens and $30.00 per 1M output tokens (based on OpenAI's API). For a blended rate (7:2:1 cache hit/input/output ratio), this is $4.35 per 1M tokens. Pricing may vary by provider. Compare provider pricing

Yes, GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) is a reasoning model. It uses extended thinking or chain-of-thought reasoning to work through complex problems before providing an answer.

GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) supports text and image input.

GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) supports text output.

Yes, GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) supports image input and can analyze, describe, and answer questions about images.

Yes, GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) is multimodal. It can process text and image input and generate text output.

GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) has a context window of 400k tokens. This determines how much text and conversation history the model can process in a single request.

No, GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) is proprietary. The model weights are not publicly available.

GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) is a proprietary model and OpenAI has not disclosed the model size or parameter count.

GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) has a knowledge cutoff of August 2025. The model's training data includes information up to this date.

Check the providers page for current API availability. [View providers](/models/gpt-5-5-instant-06-26/providers)

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