GPT-5.5 vs MiniMax M3: pricing, Quality, Value, and benchmarks
Side-by-side buyer comparison built from the current published top 10 snapshot. Quality and Value stay deterministic, while editorial verdict excerpts remain clearly AI-labeled.
Verified evidenceProvisional evidence
GPT-5.5 Quality
66.1
MiniMax M3 Quality
59.8
Quality delta
+6.3GPT-5.5 leads
Value delta
-49.4MiniMax M3 leads
Buyer summary
GPT-5.5 leads Quality by 6.3 points. MiniMax M3 leads Value by 49.4 points.
Shared roster
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This model is still under editorial review. We will publish a verdict as soon as we have completed our review of the AI model.
Monthly price
MiniMax Free: $0/month
App access
MiniMax
Conversation benchmark
Free tier
Verified vendor fact
Consumer plan pricing is grounded in the current official vendor plan page.
Verified vendor fact
Hosted app availability is grounded in the current official vendor surface.
Deterministic scores
Quality and Value comparison
GPT-5.5
Q 66.1
V 19.4
Quality rank 4 and value rank 6 in the current published roster.
MiniMax M3
Q 59.8
V 68.8
Quality rank 6 and value rank 1 in the current published roster.
Buyer access
Pricing, app access, and Conversation Value
GPT-5.5
Verified vendor fact3K tokens/chat
ChatGPT Plus: $20/month
~333 chats
Hosted app: ChatGPT
MiniMax M3
Verified vendor fact3K tokens/chat
MiniMax Free: $0/month
Free tier
Hosted app: MiniMax
Benchmark evidence
GPT-5.5
Verified evidence
Humanity's Last Exam
Normalized quality input
41.4%
OpenAI GPT-5.5 announcement | Vendor-reported OpenAI GPT-5.5 HLE no-tools score. Do not use tools-enabled HLE for the primary reasoning leaderboard.
SWE-Bench Pro
Software engineering task resolution
58.6%
OpenAI GPT-5.5 announcement | OpenAI official launch and system-card materials. Results are vendor-reported and may use model-specific harness settings that must be compared cautiously.
GPQA Diamond
Normalized quality input
93.6%
OpenAI GPT-5.5 announcement | OpenAI official launch and system-card materials. Results are vendor-reported and may use model-specific harness settings that must be compared cautiously.
ARC-AGI-2
Novel pattern reasoning
85.0%
OpenAI GPT-5.5 announcement | ARC-AGI-2 is shown as supplementary evidence only and is not currently included in the PickAI Quality Score.
Benchmark evidence
MiniMax M3
Verified evidence
Humanity's Last Exam
Normalized quality input
37.1%
Artificial Analysis - Humanity's Last Exam evaluation | Third-party benchmark evaluation page used only after the official HLE leaderboard sources fail to yield a usable result.
Editorial excerpt
GPT-5.5
AI-assisted, editorially reviewed
This model is still under editorial review. We will publish a verdict as soon as we have completed our review of the AI model.
OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 is the best all-round AI subscription for buyers who want one powerful assistant that can do far more than answer questions. It combines polished writing, sharp research, coding help, data analysis, document creation, tool use, and superb built-in image generation inside one familiar workspace. Its biggest upgrade over GPT-5.4 is follow-through: it is better at taking messy, multi-step requests and turning them into finished work with less hand-holding. For non-technical users who want the most complete, capable, and easy-to-live-with AI experience, GPT-5.5 is the safest premium choice.
GPT-5.5 sits inside the best complete AI workspace: writing, research, coding help, data analysis, documents, spreadsheets, tool use, and now very strong built-in image generation. OpenAI’s own release notes describe GPT-5.5 as built to understand complex goals, use tools, check its work, and carry multi-step tasks through to completion. ChatGPT Images 2.0 also adds stronger image generation, better text rendering, multilingual support, flexible visual styles, and more advanced creative control.
Editorial excerpt
MiniMax M3
AI-assisted, editorially reviewed
This model is still under editorial review. We will publish a verdict as soon as we have completed our review of the AI model.
This model is still under editorial review. We will publish a verdict as soon as we have completed our review of the AI model.
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