OpenAI
OpenAI

GPT-5.5

TL;DR

While developers celebrate the model's high-end performance and coding power, most users criticize the prohibitive pricing and restrictive safety guardrails as misleading PR maneuvers compared to competitors.

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751 comments analyzedApr 28, 2026

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Comment summary

High-End Problem Solving and Coding

422 comments

Users are impressed by the model's ability to solve complex programming challenges and advanced logic puzzles that previously required human intervention.

Prohibitive Pricing and Token Inefficiency

47 comments

Strong criticism targets the significant price hike compared to rivals, with many users viewing the 7x cost increase as a barrier to adoption.

Safety Guardrails and Perceived PR Stunts

85 comments

The community expresses skepticism over 'biorisk' claims and low bug bounties, often dismissing these safety measures as restrictive marketing tactics.

Competitive Pressures and Benchmark Legitimacy

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Debate surrounds the model's standing against rivals like DeepSeek and Opus, with users questioning if the release was a rushed reaction to market pressure.

Top comments

  • It's true, the best way I can describe it is other mathematicians thought of a partial solution and hinted the AI to look further into it, which ultimately led to dead ends. This one worked because he didn't tell it to try the same partial solution as the experts, he instead hinted it to use something that he was more familiar with, and it just so happened to guide the AI into solving the problem. Basically knowing how to ask the right questions will give you the answers.
    Reddityubario2,095View original
  • “You clearly had a tone in mind and stuck to it.” Just how long was that fart? Damn!
    RedditClear-Boat3077961View original
  • Yeah, what’s that about? Some math professor who spent 9 years trying to crack this salty about AI doing it in just over an hour? Or do they typically not post who solved/achieved something?
    RedditProffesorSpitfire471View original
  • Or the tables… are Turing… perhaps? I think I’m funny at least.
    RedditAwesomeAusten532View original
  • Here they come. ![gif](giphy|WwWTfQuCZ448psk1qB)
    RedditBitOne2707513View original
  • It definitely generated exactly what I prompted. “An iPhone picture of a manual clock showing 9:17am and a glass of water filled exactly to the brim of the cup” https://preview.redd.it/oz4xuil9mxwg1.jpeg?width=1086&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c6ba144e511dace678eb14e0124b20ab6d83a3e
    RedditMr-and-Mrs259View original
  • 今井さんのXより タイトルだと「Mythosに追いつかない」というとことが強調されてしまってますが(タイトル決めているのは私ではないです)、今回のGPT-5.5に関しては非公開になっているMythosと比べるのはややアンフェアだと思っており、動画内では割と素直にGPT-5.5や直近のGPT image2について高い評価をしてます
    YouTube@aa-oq8yp266View original
  • Today has been a great day for futurists everywhere ![gif](giphy|SxB0S9MgHo4ZoNrDRk)
    Reddit141_1337233View original
  • https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/ Beyond insanely good, I've been desperately waiting for this release because they are like 10x cheaper than other chinese models and 100x cheaper than US providers. I'm so pumped I can't even fully vocalize it.
    Redditjazir55190View original
  • of your
    Redditdenverbound111232View original

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