OpenAI · closed · 2025-12

GPT-5.2

#2 index 88.7
the take

The value play in the GPT-5 line. Reasoning within a hair of the flagship at less than half the price. Ignore the 100 on AIME, that benchmark is saturated now and tells you nothing about the model.

benchmarks
specs
Context
400K
Input
$1.75/M
Output
$14/M
Speed
73.8 tok/s
Modality
text, image
strengths
  • Near-flagship reasoning at <half the price
  • Strong SWE-bench (~80%)
  • Mature and broadly available
weaknesses
  • Superseded on the frontier by 5.4/5.5
  • Scores largely OpenAI-reported
  • Smaller 400K context

Sources: [1][2]