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GPT-5.5vsKimi K2 Thinking

GPT-5.5 leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. GPT-5.5 has the larger context window (1M tokens).

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Shared benchmarks
2 – 0
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
OpenAI · Moonshot AI
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
Kimi K2 Thinking
Moonshot AI · released 2025-11-06
text
Context
256K
Max out
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Input /1M
—
Output /1M
—
Cached /1M
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Scores
17 · 9 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkGPT-5.5Kimi K2 ThinkingΔEdge
Reported by both · 2
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)69% ↗39.6% ↗+29.4 ptGPT-5.5
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)84.9% ↗42.8% ↗+42.1 ptGPT-5.5
Only GPT-5.5 reports · 42
GPQA Diamond90.7% ↗epoch runnot reported——
AIME 2026100% ↗matharena ⚠not reported——
LMArena Elo1465.6 ↗not reported——
APEX-Agents (Mercor)55.1% ↗not reported——
ARC-AGI-1 (Verified)95% ↗not reported——
ARC-AGI-2 (Verified)85% ↗not reported——
BrowseComp84.4% ↗not reported——
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)26% ↗epoch runnot reported——
DeepSWE v1.1 (Datacurve)67% ↗not reported——
EBR-bench (Epoch AI run)34.3% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierMath Tier 1-351.7% ↗not reported——
FrontierMath Tier 435.4% ↗not reported——
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)72.5% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)85.3% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run)44.2% ↗epoch runnot reported——
GDPval (wins or ties)84.9% ↗not reported——
GSO Opt@1 (GSO)37.3% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)54% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)82.1% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)81.6% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)70.7% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)87.4% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)95.9% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)89.7% ↗not reported——
LMArena Agent (LMArena)0.0415 ↗not reported——
LMArena Vision (LMArena)1286.5 ↗not reported——
MCP Atlas75.3% ↗not reported——
MirrorCode (Epoch AI run)10% ↗epoch runnot reported——
MMMU-Pro (no tools)81.2% ↗not reported——
MMMU-Pro (with tools)83.2% ↗not reported——
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)56% ↗epoch runnot reported——
OSWorld-Verified78.7% ↗not reported——
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)84.4% ↗epoch runnot reported——
SAGE (Vals AI)51.5% ↗not reported——
SimpleQA Verified63% ↗epoch runnot reported——
SWE-Bench Pro58.6% ↗not reported——
tau2-bench Banking Knowledge (Sierra)44.6% ↗not reported——
Tau2-bench Telecom98% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench 2.082.7% ↗not reported——
Toolathlon55.6% ↗not reported——
Toolathlon-Verified (HKUST)73.5% ↗not reported——
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)7523.84 ↗not reported——
Only Kimi K2 Thinking reports · 15
AIME25 (no tools)not reported94.5% ↗——
BrowseComp (w/ tools)not reported60.2% ↗——
BrowseComp-ZH (w/ tools)not reported62.3% ↗——
GPQA (no tools)not reported84.5% ↗——
HLE (Text-only) (no tools)not reported23.9% ↗——
HLE (Text-only) (w/ tools)not reported44.9% ↗——
HMMT25 (no tools)not reported89.4% ↗——
IMO-AnswerBench (no tools)not reported78.6% ↗——
LiveCodeBenchV6 (no tools)not reported83.1% ↗——
MMLU-Pro (no tools)not reported84.6% ↗——
Multi-SWE-bench (w/ tools)not reported41.9% ↗——
SciCode (no tools)not reported44.8% ↗——
SWE-bench Multilingual (w/ tools)not reported61.1% ↗——
SWE-bench Verified (w/ tools)not reported71.3% ↗——
Terminal-Bench (w/ simulated tools (JSON))not reported47.1% ↗——
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 GPT-5.5 minus Kimi K2 Thinking 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

SpecGPT-5.5Kimi K2 ThinkingEdge
Context window1M tokens256K tokensGPT-5.5
Max output128K 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——
Modalitiestext · visiontextGPT-5.5
Released2026-04-232025-11-06—
Cited benchmark scores5017—
Reliability

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