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Everything OpenAI shipped in April 2026, collected from official OpenAI sources. Each entry is dated and links to the page it came from.
April 2026 was OpenAI's 7th busiest month of the 12 months to then: 4 releases, below its monthly average of 6. That was 12 releases fewer than March 2026. Most were Model (3), followed by Developer Tools (1).
Releases
4
-12 vs March 2026
Rank of 12 months
7th
Average 6 a month
Most shipped
Model
3 releases
Released GPT-5.5 , a new frontier model for complex professional work, to the Chat Completions and Responses API, and released GPT-5.5 Pro for Responses API requests for tougher problems that benefit from more compute. GPT-5.5 supports a 1M token context window, image input, str…
Source: OpenAI API ChangelogGPT-5.5 is now available in Codex as OpenAI’s newest frontier model for complex coding, computer use, knowledge work, and research workflows. GPT-5.5 in Codex GPT-5.5 is the recommended choice for most Codex tasks when it appears in your model picker.
Source: Codex ChangelogReleased GPT Image 2 , a state-of-the-art image generation model for image generation and editing. GPT Image 2 supports flexible image sizes, high-fidelity image inputs, token-based image pricing, and Batch API support with a 50% discount.
Source: OpenAI API ChangelogNewest first. Each entry links to the official page it came from.
Released GPT-5.5 , a new frontier model for complex professional work, to the Chat Completions and Responses API, and released GPT-5.5 Pro for Responses API requests for tougher problems that benefit from more compute. GPT-5.5 supports a 1M token context window, image input, str…
GPT-5.5 is now available in Codex as OpenAI’s newest frontier model for complex coding, computer use, knowledge work, and research workflows. GPT-5.5 in Codex GPT-5.5 is the recommended choice for most Codex tasks when it appears in your model picker.
Released GPT Image 2 , a state-of-the-art image generation model for image generation and editing. GPT Image 2 supports flexible image sizes, high-fidelity image inputs, token-based image pricing, and Batch API support with a 50% discount.
Introduced in-app browser for verifying work, computer use for macOS app interaction, chats for task management, enhanced pull request workflows, and artifact viewer for richer outputs
OpenAI releases per month, for April 2026 and the 11 months before it. A taller bar means more releases that month; the dated entries for each month are on its own page.
14 of the companies we track shipped in April 2026; OpenAI ranks 7th by number of releases.
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