Zapier just shipped GPT-5.5

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Zapier just shipped GPT-5.5 into the platform 👇

You can now select it as a model in your “AI by Zapier” steps. (note: you’ll need an OpenAI API key)

If you need a quick refresher on how these work, check this:

It’s a very smart model. When using it in Zapier, it can handle:

If you’re feeding in customer emails, or data scraped from websites, there’s not much need to do any pre-formatting of the data.

Just a simple prompt, telling AI what you need to extract - it can even handle reformatting what it extracts on the fly. Useful for when emails contain prices, product names, dates and addresses, etc.

Want to draft a reply after extracting data - that can be handled in one prompt now as well.

*Why me? In the last 7 years, I've designed, built, updated, and fixed 10,000+ zaps and collected all 5* reviews. I'll do the same for you.

Powered by Zapier’s new SDK you can have your AI agent do stuff like make phone calls on your behalf. Introverts rejoice!

Zapier also released something called AutomationBench.

It’s basically a benchmark for how well models handle actual automation tasks — not trivia or math problems. Zapier has all that data, and now it’s putting it to use.

Check it out here 👇

zapier.com/benchmarks

GPT-5.5 is currently at the top there.

Which tracks with what you’d expect — it’s better at doing the kind of work Zaps actually require.

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