Is GPT-5.5 Pre Release SOTA? No

Q: Is GPT-5.5 Pre Release state of the art?

No. Best recorded rank is #2 in Coding. As of Oct 14, 2026, GPT-5.5 Pre Release from OpenAI. Best recorded rank is #2 in Coding. Last listed at #2 in Coding on 2026-04-23.

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Is GPT-5.5 Pre Release state of the art?

No.Best recorded rank is #2 in Coding.

As of Oct 14, 2026, GPT-5.5 Pre Release from OpenAI. Best recorded rank is #2 in Coding. Last listed at #2 in Coding on 2026-04-23.

Computed automaticallyas of Oct 14, 2026methodology v1.0confidence: low

ReasoningNot SOTA · #11#11 · 0d ScienceNot SOTA · #11#11 · 0d CodingNot SOTA · #2#2 · 0d

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Why

The ruling, in plain English

Last listed at #11 in Reasoning on 2026-04-23.

Receipts

Evidence

Scores come from the latest ingested snapshot

Source	Score	Date	Type	Receipt
GPQA Diamond gpt-5.5-pre-release_xhigh · xhigh	0.9400252525252525 0.9–1.0	2026-04-23	INDEP.	snap_fee7890b5dd0
SWE-bench Verified gpt-5.5-pre-release_xhigh · xhigh	0.8057851239669421 0.8–0.8	2026-04-23	INDEP.	snap_fee7890b5dd0

Reign history

Where it sits in the succession

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No closed or open crown interval includes this model.

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Where it is not the crown

Category	This model	Why
Reasoning	Not SOTA · #11	Last listed at #11 in Reasoning on 2026-04-23.
Science	Not SOTA · #11	Last listed at #11 in Science on 2026-04-23. That board does not award a crown.
Coding	Not SOTA · #2	Last listed at #2 in Coding on 2026-04-23.