17% hallucination rate — Grok
Grok's hallucination rate of just 17% makes it the most factually reliable of the major models, even if it lags behind in raw coding ability.
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Apr 25, 2026
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GPT 5.5 Launch: New Architecture, Double Price, High Hallucinations
At 42:11 · chapter starts 38:10
GPT 5.5: A New Architecture That Breaks Old Prompts
GPT 5.5 is not a post-training update. It's a new base model with new architecture, new pretraining corpus, and new agent-oriented objectives, co-designed with Nvidia on 100,000 Blackwell GPUs. Your GPT 5.4 prompts will not work the same way. Switching models will break your workflows.
GPT 5.5: $5 in / $30 out pricing
GPT 5.5 doubled the price compared to its predecessor, costing $5 per million input tokens and $30 per million output tokens.
GPT 5.5 Has an 86% Hallucination Rate
GPT 5.5 tops the leaderboards but hallucinates 86% of the time. Claude Opus 4.7 hallucinates 52% of the time. Grok is at 17%. For a coding agent, hallucinations don't just give wrong answers — they break your actual tools. Benchmarks are the wrong metric.
86% hallucination rate — GPT 5.5
GPT 5.5 has an 86% hallucination rate versus 52% for Claude Opus 4.7, making it a risky choice for coding agents where accuracy is critical.
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