GPT 5.5 - Out now!

Announcement · Pricing


GPT-5.5 is now available in Cursor!

It’s currently the top model on CursorBench at 72.8%.

We’ve partnered with OpenAI to offer it for 50% off through May 2.

Have you tried it out?

Is it true that this AI model costs $30 :carousel_horse:

Hi @Albert_Bodnar, 5.5 is more expensive than 5.4.

Here’s the full pricing:

Input: $5.00 / 1M tokens

Cached input: $0.50 / 1M tokens

Output: $30.00 / 1M tokens

The image shows “50% off through Apr 30”, the caption of the post says through May 2, my cursor shows Apr 29… Can you guys make up your mind, please?

Hi @Kamal_Taghizade Sorry for the confusion. We’re going to update the tooltips, but the official end of the promotion is end of the day May 2nd.

So to be clear it’s 50% off the following full pricing below?

Input: $5.00 / 1M tokens → $2.50 / 1M tokens

Cached input: $0.50 / 1M tokens → $0.25 / 1M tokens

Output: $30.00 / 1M tokens → $15.00 / 1M tokens

That’s correct!

This is the perfect time to get hands-on with the new model and build some cool stuff!!

why only supports medium thinking effort

High and Xhigh also, no low tho.

GPT-5.5 has either a broken or inadequately short cache lifetime.
Privacy on, MAX off.

Below is a task to work on finalizing TODO.md of my project together with subagents - these are three requests. The context reached the limit of 272k and was summarized only once, immediately after the last subagent, before the final micro-edit of TODO.md and the final report to the chat.


Uh oh where did the discount go, is it May 2 already :scream:

Will those on request based pricing get to use any new models any more? Even if it has 2x or 3x request cost at least getting to use would have been nice without max mode.

@caibirdme @leoing You should have access to all reasoning levels in the model picker when you Edit the parameters associated with GPT 5.5. What are you seeing?

@dvasya Thanks for reporting this. I’m having a look.

I got charged extra what appears to be the normal price for 5.5 High. And it was billed as on-demand 1 day after I topped up my monthly subscription. 29M tokens? Something is wrong it seems.

And only seeing the medium effort

@dvasya And in the model picker itself?

Oh, just noticed the Edit button. Thank you!

PS Also I’ve been seeing the “50% off” label again for subsequent use, but that charge in the screenshot is still not labeled.

@Colin does the 50% apply to “Included” usage too? The credit usage seems to be abnormally higher than GPT-5.4 xhigh (should be same price with 50% off)