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OpenAI: GPT-5.5 Instant

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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 78th percentile of the models Model Beat tracks.

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Released
May 5, 2026
Modalities
Strongest atCoding top 22%

Benchmarks

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

47.0
Intelligence Index
Artificial Analysis
47th percentile of tracked models
78.0
Coding Index
Artificial Analysis
78th percentile of tracked models
19.0
Agentic Index
Artificial Analysis
19th percentile of tracked models

Reasoning

2 evals
GPQA Diamond84.6%

Graduate-level scientific reasoning

Humanity's Last Exam20.3%

Frontier of human expert knowledge

Coding

1 evals
SciCode50.3%

Scientific research coding

Agentic & Tools

1 evals
τ²-bench49.4%

Tool-agent-user reliability

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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 50.3% on SciCode, 84.6% on GPQA Diamond, 20.3% 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 Aug 5, 2026.