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OpenAI Releases GPT-5.5, Its Most Capable Model for Autonomous Work

OpenAI is limiting access to paid ChatGPT tiers pending a safety review for wider API use.

Overview

  • OpenAI began rolling out GPT-5.5 to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise users as well as Codex customers, while keeping the public API closed for now to finish safety checks with partners.
  • The model is built to plan, use software tools, verify its own work and carry multi-step tasks to completion with less hand-holding from users.
  • OpenAI reports strong benchmark results, including 84.9% on GDPval for autonomous knowledge work and 78.8% on OSWorld-Verified for operating real computer environments, with latency similar to GPT-5.4 and lower token use.
  • OpenAI published new API rates for GPT-5.5 at $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens, roughly double the listed prices for GPT-5.4.
  • GPT-5.5 powers new cloud “workspace agents” that keep working when users step away and share context across teams, pointing to a push toward a single, work-focused app in a crowded AI race with Anthropic and Google.