Noometry

Model comparison

GPT-4 Turbo vs GPT-5.2 Pro

GPT-5.2 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index. GPT-4 Turbo costs 3.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5.2 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4 Turbo OpenAI

30.5

Rank #292 Confirmed

GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI

52.3

Rank #39 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4 Turbo 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 math, where GPT-5.2 Pro leads 65.3 to 9.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3): 0.7% for GPT-4 Turbo and 74% for GPT-5.2 Pro.
  • GPT-4 Turbo is cheaper at $10 / $30 per million input/output tokens, against $21 / $168 for GPT-5.2 Pro.
  • GPT-5.2 Pro accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

GPT-4 TurboGPT-5.2 Pro
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index30.552.3
Released2023-11-062025-12-11
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window128K400K
Max output4K128K
Input $ / M tokens$10$21
Output $ / M tokens$30$168
Results tracked368

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: 33.8 (#249), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGPT-5.2 Pro
WeirdML18%—
BigCodeBench Instruct48.2%—
LMArena Coding1268—
BigCodeBench Complete58.2%—
HumanEval+86.6%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: —, GPT-5.2 Pro: —

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGPT-5.2 Pro
METR Time Horizons36.7%—

Reasoning GPT-5.2 Pro leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 15.3 (#317), GPT-5.2 Pro: 51.5 (#33)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGPT-5.2 Pro
SimpleBench25.1%57.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index127.25155.4
ARC-AGI-2—54.2%
NYT Connections (extended)—79.3%
ARC-AGI-1—90.5%
Chess Puzzles6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1251—
DTBench61.6%—
LMCA9.8%—
ForecastBench59.4—

Math GPT-5.2 Pro leads

GPT-4 Turbo: 9.0 (#322), GPT-5.2 Pro: 65.3 (#29)

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGPT-5.2 Pro
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.7%74%
FrontierMath Tier 4—46%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.7%—
LMArena Math1272—
MATH Level 546.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—31.3%

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: 24.3 (#268), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGPT-5.2 Pro
GPQA Diamond46.6%—
Confabulations28.4%—
LMArena Expert1223—
MMLU81.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: 30.6 (#110), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGPT-5.2 Pro
LMArena Vision1090—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: 40.5 (#216), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGPT-5.2 Pro
LMArena Non-English1245—
LMArena Chinese1242—
LMArena French1276—
LMArena German1259—
LMArena Japanese1194—
LMArena Korean1187—
LMArena Russian1259—
LMArena Spanish1260—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: 65.8 (#216), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGPT-5.2 Pro
LMArena Instruction Following1249—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: 38.0 (#206), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGPT-5.2 Pro
LMArena Longer Query1254—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-4 Turbo: 47.7 (#206), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

BenchmarkGPT-4 TurboGPT-5.2 Pro
LMArena Text1272—
LMArena Creative Writing1269—
LMArena Multi-Turn1267—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4 Turbo better than GPT-5.2 Pro?

GPT-5.2 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index. GPT-4 Turbo costs 3.9× 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, GPT-4 Turbo or GPT-5.2 Pro?

GPT-4 Turbo is cheaper. It lists at $10 per million input tokens and $30 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 128K.

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

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4 Turbo has 36 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.2 Pro has 8.

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