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GPT-5.5 vs Grok 3

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OpenAI

GPT-5.5

ProprietaryMar 2026

OpenAI’s 2026 flagship — strongest at reasoning, coding and tool use.

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xAI

Grok 3

ProprietaryFeb 2025

Real-time data via X — competitive on reasoning, 1M context.

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Head to head

Spec
GPT-5.5
Grok 3
Intelligence index↑ better
Winner82
74
Speed↑ better
Winner95 tok/s
75 tok/s
Time to first token↓ better
Winner0.42 s
0.6 s
Context window↑ better
400k
Winner1M
Max output↑ better
16k
16k
Input price↓ better
$5.00 / 1M tokens
Winner$3.00 / 1M tokens
Output price↓ better
$15.00 / 1M tokens
$15.00 / 1M tokens
Blended price↓ better
$7.50 / 1M tokens
Winner$6.00 / 1M tokens
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Input modalities
text, image
text, image
Output modalities
text
text

Benchmark showdown

MMLU
GPT-5.5
90.2
Grok 3
88.0
MMLU Pro
GPT-5.5
78.0
Grok 3
76.0
GPQA
GPT-5.5
62.5
Grok 3
62.0
MATH
GPT-5.5
89.1
Grok 3
88.5
HumanEval
GPT-5.5
93.0
Grok 3
90.0

Strengths, weaknesses and best-for

GPT-5.5
Strengths
  • Best-in-class reasoning
  • Huge 400k context
  • Strong tool use and agents
Weaknesses
  • Expensive vs Sonnet for non-reasoning tasks
  • Higher latency than gpt-5.5-mini
Best for
  • Agentic workflows
  • Complex coding
  • Hard math & research
Grok 3
Strengths
  • Live X data
  • 1M context
  • Strong reasoning mode
Weaknesses
  • Smaller ecosystem
  • Less tool-use tooling
Best for
  • Real-time research
  • Social-aware apps

Quick verdict

  • Pick GPT-5.5 if you want it smarter and faster.
  • Pick Grok 3 if you want it cheaper and longer context.

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