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GPT-5.5

GPT-5.5 — Spezifikationen

Compiled by Mustafa Ihsan from the vendor’s published documentation · Last updated

Entwickler OpenAI
Typ LLM (Reasoning)
Modality Text, Vision → Text
Parameter Nicht offengelegt
Kontextfenster 1,05 Mio.
Maximale Ausgabe 128 K
Lizenz Proprietär
Offene Gewichte Nein
Veröffentlicht 2026
Eingabepreis $5.00 /1M
Ausgabepreis $30.00 /1M
API-Anbieter OpenAI, Azure

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What is GPT-5.5?

GPT-5.5 is OpenAI’s flagship, covering frontier reasoning across coding, writing, research
and multimodal tasks with a context window of roughly 1.05M tokens. Pricing is $5 in / $30
out per million tokens, and a GPT-5.5 Pro tier exists for the highest-stakes reasoning.

Two pricing details shape how it should be used. First, prompts above 272K input tokens
are billed at a higher rate, so the effective cost of a long-context feature is not the
headline number — budget the premium explicitly or keep prompts under the threshold with
tighter retrieval. Second, the 6× output-to-input ratio is one of the steepest in the
frontier bracket: at $30 per million output tokens, generation-heavy workloads such as long
report writing or verbose agent traces cost far more than prompt-heavy ones like retrieval
and classification. Teams that instrument their token mix usually find output is where the
bill actually lives, and that trimming verbosity, capping max_tokens and moving first drafts
to a cheaper model saves more than any prompt-compression trick. Compare it directly against
Claude Opus 4.8, which charges $25 output with no long-context premium.

GPT-5.5 pricing: API cost per 1M tokens

Eingabe (pro 1 Mio. Token)$5.00
Ausgabe (pro 1 Mio. Token)$30.00
Verhältnis Output/Input
Gemischt (4:1 Input:Output)$10.00 pro 1 Mio. Tokens

What GPT-5.5 costs per month

Tatsächliche monatliche Ausgaben bei einem 4:1-Input-zu-Output-Mix – dem Verhältnis, das typische Chat- oder RAG-Arbeitslasten tatsächlich erzeugen.

WorkloadTokens/MonatKosten pro Monat
Nebenprojekt 1 Mio. Eingabe / 0,25 Mio. Ausgabe $13
Kleines Team 20 Mio. Eingabe / 5 Mio. Ausgabe $250
Produktion 200 Mio. Eingabe / 50 Mio. Ausgabe $2,500

Stellen Sie Ihre eigenen Berechnungen im KI-API-Kostenrechner.

Cheaper alternatives to GPT-5.5

ModellGewichteter Preis pro Million US-DollarSie sparen
Claude Opus 5 $9.00 10 % günstiger
Kimi K3 offenere $5.40 46 % günstiger
Claude Opus 4.8 $9.00 10 % günstiger

Häufig gestellte Fragen

How much does GPT-5.5 cost per 1M tokens?

GPT-5.5 costs $5.00 per 1M input tokens and $30.00 per 1M output tokens. At a typical 4:1 input-to-output mix that blends to about $10.00 per 1M tokens.

How much does GPT-5.5 cost per month?

A small-team workload of 20M input and 5M output tokens a month costs about $250 on GPT-5.5. A side project (1M in / 0.25M out) costs roughly $12.50.

What is a cheaper alternative to GPT-5.5?

Claude Opus 5 is the strongest cheaper option in our database at $9.00 per 1M blended — about 10% less than GPT-5.5.

Can I run GPT-5.5 locally?

No. GPT-5.5 is a closed, API-only model — the weights are not released, so it cannot be self-hosted.

Why does GPT-5.5 charge more for output than input?

Output tokens are generated one at a time and cannot be batched the way a prompt can, so they cost the provider more to serve. GPT-5.5 charges 6× more for output, which is why prompt-heavy workloads are far cheaper to run than generation-heavy ones.

Die Preise entsprechen den offiziell veröffentlichten Listenpreisen für die primäre API des jeweiligen Modells und werden regelmäßig aktualisiert, sobald Anbieter diese ändern. Volumen-, Batch- und Cached-Input-Rabatte sind nicht enthalten. Vergleichen Sie alle Modelle nebeneinander im Datenbank für KI-Modelle oder das LLM-Leaderboard.

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