Head-to-head comparison across 1benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
GPT-5.5 Pro
100
o3-mini
58
Pick GPT-5.5 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. o3-mini only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
Knowledge
+20.0 difference
GPT-5.5 Pro
o3-mini
$30 / $180
$1.1 / $4.4
N/A
160 t/s
N/A
7.12s
1M
200K
Pick GPT-5.5 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. o3-mini only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
GPT-5.5 Pro is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 100 to 58. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
GPT-5.5 Pro is also the more expensive model on tokens at $30.00 input / $180.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $1.10 input / $4.40 output per 1M tokens for o3-mini. That is roughly 40.9x on output cost alone. GPT-5.5 Pro gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 200K for o3-mini.
GPT-5.5 Pro is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 100 to 58.
o3-mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.2 versus 57.2. GPT-5.5 Pro stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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