Agentic
Directional only- Claude Mythos 5
- 87.0
- GPT-5.5 Pro
- 90.1
- Weighted basis
- 3 vs 1 rows
- Reading
- Directional only
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Start free briefUpdated August 22, 2026. Public scores include evidence status and uncertainty. They are not guarantees for a specific workload.
Decision reading
Claude Mythos 5 has the higher public score, 82.95 versus 64.16, and the 90% score intervals do not overlap.
3 results are shared. Category rows based on different benchmark sets are marked directional and do not name a winner.
Recommendations appear only when a shared evidence basis or an explicit operating constraint supports the call. Secondary and unsupported use cases stay disclosed below the initial list.
Prompts that approach the documented context limit
GPT-5.5 Pro
GPT-5.5 Pro has the larger documented context window.
Confidence: documented
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
Claude Mythos 5
Claude Mythos 5 has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Costs use the listed standard API rates.
Confidence: listed-rates
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
Claude Mythos 5
Claude Mythos 5 has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. GPT-5.5 Pro has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.
Confidence: rate-fallback
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
Claude Mythos 5
Claude Mythos 5 has the lower estimated token cost for this stated workload. Costs use the listed standard API rates.
Confidence: listed-rates
Code generation, repair, and software-engineering tasks
Not enough matched evidence
No shared weighted benchmark basis supports a winner.
Confidence: limited
Tool use, computer use, and multi-step task completion
Not enough matched evidence
The category averages use different weighted benchmark sets, so they are directional rather than like-for-like.
Confidence: limited
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results present for only one model describe coverage, not superiority.
2 categories use different evidence sets. Those rows remain visible for coverage context but do not name a winner.
Each row states whether both averages use the same weighted benchmark set. Directional and not-comparable rows remain visible, but they never receive a winner in this template.
| Category | Claude Mythos 5 | GPT-5.5 Pro | Weighted basis | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agentic | 87.0 | 90.1 | Directional only3 vs 1 rows | Directional only |
| Knowledge | 68.5 | 57.2 | Directional only2 vs 1 rows | Directional only |
| Coding | 89.7 | Not measured | Not comparable2 vs 0 rows | Not comparable |
| Reasoning | Not measured | Not measured | Not comparable0 vs 0 rows | Not comparable |
| Math | 97.6 | 48.1 | Not comparable1 vs 2 rows | Not comparable |
| Multilingual | Not measured | Not measured | Not comparable0 vs 0 rows | Not comparable |
| Multimodal | 93.5 | Not measured | Not comparable1 vs 0 rows | Not comparable |
| Instruction following | Not measured | Not measured | Not comparable0 vs 0 rows | Not comparable |
Only shared public evidence is shown. Sparse evidence stays a ruled list rather than being closed into a radar shape.
Too few matched category axes support a radar. The ruled list below shows only shared benchmark results; positions use each benchmark’s normalized display scale when available.
HLE
Knowledge
BrowseComp
Agentic
Three fixed token mixes turn per-token rates into comparable decisions. Each scenario states context fit and whether cached input had to fall back to the published list-input rate.
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
Claude Mythos 5 has the lower modeled cost
Costs use the listed standard API rates.
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
Claude Mythos 5 has the lower modeled cost
Costs use the listed standard API rates.
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
Claude Mythos 5 has the lower modeled cost
GPT-5.5 Pro has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.
Sourced differences are shown directly. Missing facts stay explicit instead of being inferred from a model name or family.
Maximum documented context; output-token limits may be lower.
Claude Mythos 5
GPT-5.5 Pro
Claude Mythos 5
claude-mythos-5
Anthropic model overviewGPT-5.5 Pro
gpt-5.5-pro
OpenAI GPT-5.5 Pro model documentationA missing cached-input rate falls back to the listed input rate only in the stated workload estimate.
Claude Mythos 5
$1 per 1M cached input tokens
Claude API pricingGPT-5.5 Pro
Not published
OpenAI pricingClaude Mythos 5
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Anthropic model overviewGPT-5.5 Pro
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OpenAI model catalogClaude Mythos 5
GPT-5.5 Pro
Claude Mythos 5
Limited Access · Claude API
Anthropic model overviewGPT-5.5 Pro
Generally Available · OpenAI Responses API
OpenAI model catalogClaude Mythos 5
Reasoning
GPT-5.5 Pro
Reasoning
Claude Mythos 5
Proprietary
GPT-5.5 Pro
Proprietary
Claude Mythos 5
Proprietary
GPT-5.5 Pro
Proprietary
Claude Mythos 5
2026-06-09
GPT-5.5 Pro
2026-04-23
Run the same representative tasks against both endpoints before changing production traffic.
The full public result ledger is available for audit without forcing a wide desktop table onto a phone.
Terminal-Bench 2.0
Not directly comparable
OSWorld-Verified
Not directly comparable
BrowseComp
GPT-5.5 Pro leads this result
CyberGym
Not directly comparable
USAMO 2026
Not directly comparable
FrontierMath (legacy)
Not directly comparable
FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)
Not directly comparable
FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4)
Not directly comparable
SWE Multilingual
Not directly comparable
Claude Mythos 5 has the higher public score, 82.95 versus 64.16, and the 90% score intervals do not overlap. That is the clearest overall quality signal in the current public data.
The published evidence does not provide a shared weighted coding basis for both models, so BenchLM does not name a coding winner.
The current agentic tasks averages use different weighted benchmark sets, so BenchLM does not name a winner from them. Read the shared benchmark rows directly and test the models on the same task set.
For the stated presets, chat costs $0.035 on Claude Mythos 5 and $0.12 on GPT-5.5 Pro; repository review costs $0.65 and $2.04; the cache-heavy agent loop costs $0.9 and $8.40. GPT-5.5 Pro has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate.
GPT-5.5 Pro has the larger documented context window: 1.05M, compared with 1M.
Last updated August 22, 2026
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