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DeepSeek V3.1vsGPT-5.5

GPT-5.5 leads 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. GPT-5.5 has the larger context window (1M tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
0 – 4
GPT-5.5 leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
GPT-5.5
1M tokens
Providers
2 providers
DeepSeek · OpenAI
DeepSeek V3.1
DeepSeek · released 2025-08-21
text
Context
128K
Max out
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Input /1M
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Output /1M
—
Cached /1M
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Scores
18 · 9 core
GPT-5.5
OpenAI · released 2026-04-23
textvision
Context
1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$5 ↗
Output /1M
$30 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.5
Scores
50 · 12 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkDeepSeek V3.1GPT-5.5ΔEdge
Reported by both · 4
LMArena Elo1417.1 ↗1465.6 ↗-48.5GPT-5.5
BrowseComp30% ↗84.4% ↗-54.4 ptGPT-5.5
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)40% ↗69% ↗-29 ptGPT-5.5
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)38.4% ↗84.9% ↗-46.5 ptGPT-5.5
Only DeepSeek V3.1 reports · 14
Aider-Polyglot (thinking)76.3% ↗not reported——
AIME 2024 (thinking)93.1% ↗not reported——
AIME 2025 (thinking)88.4% ↗not reported——
GPQA-Diamond (thinking)80.1% ↗not reported——
HMMT 2025 (thinking)84.2% ↗not reported——
Humanity's Last Exam (Python + Search)29.8% ↗not reported——
Humanity's Last Exam (thinking, text-only)15.9% ↗not reported——
LiveCodeBench (2408-2505) (thinking)74.8% ↗not reported——
MMLU-Pro (thinking)84.8% ↗not reported——
MMLU-Redux (thinking)93.7% ↗not reported——
SimpleQA (search agent)93.4% ↗not reported——
SWE Verified (Agent mode)66% ↗not reported——
SWE-bench Multilingual (Agent mode)54.5% ↗not reported——
Terminal-bench (Terminus 1 framework)31.3% ↗not reported——
Only GPT-5.5 reports · 40
GPQA Diamondnot reported90.7% ↗epoch run——
AIME 2026not reported100% ↗matharena ⚠——
APEX-Agents (Mercor)not reported55.1% ↗——
ARC-AGI-1 (Verified)not reported95% ↗——
ARC-AGI-2 (Verified)not reported85% ↗——
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)not reported26% ↗epoch run——
DeepSWE v1.1 (Datacurve)not reported67% ↗——
EBR-bench (Epoch AI run)not reported34.3% ↗epoch run——
FrontierMath Tier 1-3not reported51.7% ↗——
FrontierMath Tier 4not reported35.4% ↗——
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)not reported72.5% ↗epoch run——
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)not reported85.3% ↗epoch run——
Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run)not reported44.2% ↗epoch run——
GDPval (wins or ties)not reported84.9% ↗——
GSO Opt@1 (GSO)not reported37.3% ↗——
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)not reported54% ↗——
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)not reported82.1% ↗——
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)not reported81.6% ↗——
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)not reported70.7% ↗——
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)not reported87.4% ↗——
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)not reported95.9% ↗——
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)not reported89.7% ↗——
LMArena Agent (LMArena)not reported0.0415 ↗——
LMArena Vision (LMArena)not reported1286.5 ↗——
MCP Atlasnot reported75.3% ↗——
MirrorCode (Epoch AI run)not reported10% ↗epoch run——
MMMU-Pro (no tools)not reported81.2% ↗——
MMMU-Pro (with tools)not reported83.2% ↗——
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)not reported56% ↗epoch run——
OSWorld-Verifiednot reported78.7% ↗——
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)not reported84.4% ↗epoch run——
SAGE (Vals AI)not reported51.5% ↗——
SimpleQA Verifiednot reported63% ↗epoch run——
SWE-Bench Pronot reported58.6% ↗——
tau2-bench Banking Knowledge (Sierra)not reported44.6% ↗——
Tau2-bench Telecomnot reported98% ↗——
Terminal-Bench 2.0not reported82.7% ↗——
Toolathlonnot reported55.6% ↗——
Toolathlon-Verified (HKUST)not reported73.5% ↗——
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)not reported7523.84 ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is DeepSeek V3.1 minus GPT-5.5 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecDeepSeek V3.1GPT-5.5Edge
Context window128K tokens1M tokensGPT-5.5
Max output—128K tokens—
Input price / 1M—$5 ↗—
Output price / 1M—$30 ↗—
Cached input / 1M—$0.5 ↗—
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
—$35—
Modalitiestexttext · visionGPT-5.5
Released2025-08-212026-04-23—
Cited benchmark scores1850—
Reliability

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