BenchLeader

GPT-5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol

Verdict
  • GPT-6.1 Sol (max) leads on quality: 69.3 vs 65.9.
  • GPT-5.5 (xhigh) is stronger in instruction following, long context.
  • GPT-6.1 Sol (max) is stronger in agents & tools, coding, composite, knowledge, maths, multimodal, reasoning, human preference.
  • GPT-6.1 Sol (max) is 2.8× cheaper ($4.00 vs $11.25 per 1M blended).
  • GPT-5.5 (xhigh) streams 1.6× faster (88 vs 56 tokens per second).
MetricGPT-5.5 (xhigh)GPT-6.1 Sol (max)
BenchLeader Index65.969.3
Agents & tools score61.563.9
Coding score61.472.4
Composite score69.279.0
Instruction following score73.8–
Knowledge score65.578.8
Long context score67.566.8
Maths score69.972.5
Multimodal score63.166.2
Reasoning score75.876.4
Human preference score–68.1
Blended price $/M$11.25$4.00
Output speed88 tok/s56 tok/s
Time to first answer39.0 s326.9 s
Context window1.1M1.1M
GPQA Diamond–95.4%
FrontierMath Tiers 1–385.3%93.7%
FrontierMath Tier 472.5%100.0%
OTIS Mock AIME–100.0%
SimpleQA Verified63.0%73.9%
Terminal-Bench–58.2%
OSWorld-Verified 2.013.0%–
SciCode56.1%54.2%
WeirdML84.9%–
APEX-Agents–60.0%
ProofBench50.0%–
GSO-Bench40.2%–
LMArena Text–1484
LMArena Hard Prompts–1507
LMArena Coding–1545
LMArena WebDev15131755
LMArena Vision–1288
LMArena Agent4.411.7
LiveBench80.2%81.6%
LiveBench Reasoning89.7%92.6%
LiveBench Coding82.2%80.4%
LiveBench Agentic Coding54.0%54.5%
LiveBench Mathematics95.9%96.8%
LiveBench Data Analysis81.6%82.7%
LiveBench Language87.4%90.1%
LiveBench Instruction Following70.7%74.2%
AA Intelligence Index v4.3.238.451.8
IFBench75.8%–
AA-LCR84.3%83.0%
MMMU-Pro79.9%86.0%
AA-Omniscience20.541.5
Terminal-Bench Hard60.6%–
GPQA Diamond (AA)93.5%–
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)45.8%52.9%
SciCode (AA)55.8%54.2%
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)93.9%–
LiveCodeBench85.3%–
MMLU-Pro88.1%–
IOI–96.9%
LegalBench86.5%–
CorpFin68.4%–
TaxEval75.0%–
SWE-bench (Vals)82.6%–
GPQA Diamond (Vals)93.2%–
Vals Index–61.1
AIME 2026100.0%–
HMMT February 202698.5%–
MathArena Apex80.2%–
MCP Atlas75.3%–
ARC-AGI-195.0%96.5%
ARC-AGI-285.0%94.2%
ARC-AGI-3–96.2%
CritPt27.1%31.7%
GDPval-AA v2.142.7%53.8%
τ³-Banking (AA)39.0%–
ITBench SRE (AA)45.8%–
Analyst Agent (AA)50.0%50.0%
APEX-Agents (AA)37.7%–
BioMysteryBench–79.6%
CaseLaw v266.2%–
Code Migration45.2%65.1%
CyberBench–39.3%
Excel Modeling Benchmark64.5%70.8%
Finance Agent v251.8%52.0%
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark3.8%5.4%
Legal Research Bench40.4%38.5%
MedCode49.1%48.8%
MedScribe86.9%86.5%
MMMU-Pro (Vals)88.3%–
MortgageTax68.8%–
MysteryMechanism–46.4%
ProgramBench0.5%–
Public Benefits Bench60.9%59.3%
SAGE51.5%46.5%
SkillsBench62.2%–
SREBench3.8%50.8%
Tax Agent Bench60.5%62.3%
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals)–55.0%
Time Horizon Index: KSP8.3%–
Vals Multimodal Index68.1%–
Vibe Code Bench v1.169.8%88.9%
FORTRESS16.3%–
SWE Atlas: Codebase QnA45.4%–
SWE Atlas: Refactoring44.8%–
SWE Atlas: Test Writing42.6%–
LMArena Maths–1488
LMArena Creative Writing–1462
LMArena Instruction Following–1488
LMArena Multi-turn–1487
LMArena Longer Queries–1496
Chess Puzzles–61.0%
EBR-bench34.3%54.3%
Mystery Game Puzzles56.0%80.0%
PostTrainBench27.2%–
DeepSWE v1.167.0%–
LMCA54.3%–
DTBench96.0%–
ALE-Bench1943.0–
GDP.pdf26.0%–
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA)14.7%56.1%
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (AA)84.3%–
AutomationBench–64.9%
GDP.pdf–31.0%
MLCR–33.9%
Harvey LAB–6.9%
AA-Omniscience: accuracy58.0%62.1%
AA-Omniscience: non-hallucination11.0%45.7%
AA-Briefcase v1.1–1557

Data as of 2026-10-11. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.

GPT-5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol: questions

Is GPT-5.5 better than GPT-6.1 Sol?
GPT-6.1 Sol (max) leads on quality: 69.3 vs 65.9. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; GPT-6.1 Sol (max) is ahead overall as of 2026-10-11, but check the category scores for your use.
Is GPT-5.5 better than GPT-6.1 Sol for coding?
GPT-6.1 Sol scores higher in coding (72 vs 61 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Is GPT-5.5 better than GPT-6.1 Sol for agentic tasks?
GPT-6.1 Sol scores higher in agentic tasks (64 vs 62 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Which is cheaper, GPT-5.5 or GPT-6.1 Sol?
GPT-6.1 Sol is cheaper: $4.00 against $11.25 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
Which is faster, GPT-5.5 or GPT-6.1 Sol?
GPT-5.5 streams faster: 88 against 56 output tokens per second.
Which has the larger context window?
Both accept 1.1M tokens of context.