Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs GPT-5.2 Pro

GPT-5.2 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 43.1 on the Noometry Index. Claude Opus 4 costs 1.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.2 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

43.1

Rank #100 Confirmed

GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI

52.3

Rank #39 Reported

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.2 Pro in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.2 Pro leads 51.5 to 27.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 35.7% for Claude Opus 4 and 90.5% for GPT-5.2 Pro.
  • Claude Opus 4 is cheaper at $15 / $75 per million input/output tokens, against $21 / $168 for GPT-5.2 Pro.
  • GPT-5.2 Pro accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and GPT-5.2 Pro specifications
Claude Opus 4GPT-5.2 Pro
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index43.152.3
Released2025-05-222025-12-11
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K400K
Max output32K128K
Input $ / M tokens$15$21
Output $ / M tokens$75$168
Results tracked568

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-5.2 Pro
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
LMArena Coding1442—
AlgoTune1.33—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-5.2 Pro
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning GPT-5.2 Pro leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), GPT-5.2 Pro: 51.5 (#33)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-5.2 Pro
ARC-AGI-28.6%54.2%
SimpleBench58.8%57.4%
ARC-AGI-135.7%90.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67155.4
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)—79.3%
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1399—
DTBench81.6%—
LMCA37.4%—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math GPT-5.2 Pro leads

Claude Opus 4: 42.0 (#86), GPT-5.2 Pro: 65.3 (#29)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-5.2 Pro
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%31.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—74%
FrontierMath Tier 4—46%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%—
Omni-MATH61.6%—
LMArena Math1390—
MATH Level 585%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 44.0 (#88), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-5.2 Pro
GPQA Diamond76.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—
LMArena Expert1386—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-5.2 Pro
LMArena Vision1192—
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-5.2 Pro
LMArena Non-English1362—
LMArena Chinese1386—
LMArena French1372—
LMArena German1391—
LMArena Japanese1331—
LMArena Korean1321—
LMArena Russian1392—
LMArena Spanish1389—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-5.2 Pro
IFEval91.8%—
LMArena Instruction Following1406—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-5.2 Pro
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—
LMArena Longer Query1422—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4GPT-5.2 Pro
LMArena Text1377—
LMArena Creative Writing1387—
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1396—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than GPT-5.2 Pro?

GPT-5.2 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 43.1 on the Noometry Index. Claude Opus 4 costs 1.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.2 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4 or GPT-5.2 Pro?

Claude Opus 4 is cheaper. It lists at $15 per million input tokens and $75 per million output tokens; GPT-5.2 Pro lists at $21 and $168.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5.2 Pro does, with 400K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and GPT-5.2 Pro share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.2 Pro has 8.

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