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GPT-5.5 Instant is OpenAI’s proprietary AI model, released May 5, 2026. Its strongest use case is coding, where it ranks in the 79th percentile of the models Model Beat tracks.

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Released
May 5, 2026
Modalities
Strongest atCoding top 21%

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher is better — and rank shows where GPT-5.5 Instant lands among all models tracked on Model Beat.

34.0
Intelligence Index
Epoch AI
34th percentile of tracked models
79.0
Coding Index
Epoch AI
79th percentile of tracked models
17.0
Agentic Index
Epoch AI
17th percentile of tracked models

Reasoning

3 evals
GPQA Diamond82.5%

Graduate-level scientific reasoning

Humanity's Last Exam19.9%

Frontier of human expert knowledge

SimpleQA Verified38.0%

Factual accuracy & hallucination

Coding

1 evals
SciCode52.5%

Scientific research coding

Math

1 evals
AIME 2024/202568.1%

Olympiad-qualifier math

Agentic & Tools

1 evals
τ²-bench49.4%

Tool-agent-user reliability

Changelog

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  • GPT-5.5 Instant: reported Humanity's Last Exam score fell from 21.6% to 19.9% (-8%)benchmark · Sep 8, 2026
  • GPT-5.5 Instant: Humanity's Last Exam improved from 20.3% to 21.6% (+6%)benchmark · Aug 6, 2026

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Frequently asked questions

What is GPT-5.5 Instant?

GPT-5.5 Instant is a GPT-family AI model, from OpenAI, released May 5, 2026.

Who created GPT-5.5 Instant?

GPT-5.5 Instant is an AI model developed by OpenAI, part of the GPT family, released May 5, 2026.

How does GPT-5.5 Instant perform on benchmarks?

On standardized evaluations tracked by Epoch AI, GPT-5.5 Instant scores 52.5% on SciCode, 38.0% on SimpleQA Verified, 19.9% on Humanity's Last Exam.

Is GPT-5.5 Instant open source?

GPT-5.5 Instant is a proprietary model (API access), available through its provider's API rather than as a downloadable open-weight model.

Benchmark data from Epoch AI (CC BY) and Artificial Analysis; pricing, specs & descriptions from OpenRouter. Data updated Sep 17, 2026.