OpenAI GPT-5.5-Pro vs xAI Grok‑1 — side-by-side specs.
OpenAI GPT-5.5-Pro | xAI Grok‑1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | OpenAI | xAI |
| Release date | Apr 23 2026 | Nov 3 2023 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | — |
Context window | — | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
Web browsing BrowseCompCan the AI browse the web and track down hard-to-find answers? Higher is better. | 90.1% | — |
Advanced math FrontierMath · Tier 1–3Very hard, research-level math problems. Tiers 1–3 are the (still extremely difficult) lower tiers. Higher is better. | 52.4% | — |
Advanced math FrontierMath · Tier 4Very hard, research-level math problems. Tier 4 is the hardest — close to what professional research mathematicians tackle. Higher is better. | 39.6% | — |
Knowledge work GDPval (win/tie rate)How often the AI's work matches or beats a human expert's on real knowledge-work tasks. Higher is better. | 82.3% | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Grok‑1 shipped 902 days before GPT-5.5-Pro | |
GPT-5.5-Pro and Grok‑1 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Grok‑1 shipped 902 days before GPT-5.5-Pro, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Grok‑1 is an open-source / open-weight model; GPT-5.5-Pro is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — GPT-5.5-Pro and Grok‑1 don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.