Model comparison

GPT-5.2 vs Grok 4 Fast

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.2 OpenAI

54.1

Rank #34 Confirmed

Grok 4 Fast xAI

39.4

Rank #167 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.2 scores higher in 8 categories and Grok 4 Fast in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.2 leads 50.2 to 22.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 52.9% for GPT-5.2 and 5.3% for Grok 4 Fast.

Side by side

GPT-5.2 and Grok 4 Fast specifications
GPT-5.2Grok 4 Fast
ProviderOpenAIxAI
Noometry Index54.139.4
Released2025-12-112025-09-19
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.75—
Output $ / M tokens$14—
Results tracked6730

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 51.6 (#37), Grok 4 Fast: 32.5 (#271)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Grok 4 Fast
LMArena WebDev14161159
WeirdML72.2%42.9%
LMArena Coding14471429
SWE-bench Verified73.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)72.8%—
SWE-bench Multilingual66.7%—
GSO27.4%—
ALE-Bench1,294—
AlgoTune2.05—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 40.2 (#24), Grok 4 Fast: 29.5 (#86)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Grok 4 Fast
τ²-bench Banking32.2%15.7%
LMArena Search12071171
Terminal-Bench64.9%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard55.9%—
GDPval49.7%—
Remote Labor Index2.5%—
τ²-bench Airline83%—
τ²-bench Retail81.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom89.7%—
Cybench—30%
DeepResearch Bench41.1%—
METR Time Horizons75.3%—
Vending-Bench 23,591—

Reasoning GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 50.2 (#35), Grok 4 Fast: 22.2 (#201)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Grok 4 Fast
ARC-AGI-252.9%5.3%
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.3%66.1%
ARC-AGI-186.2%48.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14451412
DTBench90.9%82.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index153.45144.2
ForecastBench60.160.5
SimpleBench45.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)83.6%—
Chess Puzzles49%—
EnigmaEval10.4%—
EBR-Bench23%—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
LMCA43.9%—

Math GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 60.0 (#38), Grok 4 Fast: 38.9 (#123)

Knowledge GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 59.3 (#32), Grok 4 Fast: 32.0 (#214)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Grok 4 Fast
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.4%19.7%
LMArena Expert14451411
GPQA Diamond91.4%—
Humanity's Last Exam27.8%—
SimpleQA Verified37.1%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 51.3 (#7), Grok 4 Fast: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Grok 4 Fast
LMArena Vision1268—
VPCT84%—
Furniture Assembly38.3%—
LMArena Document1405—

Multilingual GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 53.4 (#67), Grok 4 Fast: 51.3 (#111)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Grok 4 Fast
LMArena Non-English14251396
LMArena Chinese14601457
LMArena French14551431
LMArena German14481383
LMArena Japanese14201352
LMArena Korean13921357
LMArena Russian14401389
LMArena Spanish14331415

Instruction Following GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 74.7 (#89), Grok 4 Fast: 73.2 (#121)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Grok 4 Fast
LMArena Instruction Following14171387

Long Context Grok 4 Fast leads

GPT-5.2: 44.0 (#78), Grok 4 Fast: 63.2 (#3)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Grok 4 Fast
LMArena Longer Query14281415
Fiction.LiveBench—94.4%
CL-bench18.2%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 66.8 (#32), Grok 4 Fast: 60.0 (#102)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Grok 4 Fast
LMArena Text14391407
LMArena Creative Writing14011387
LMArena Multi-Turn14581414
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1703—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.2 better than Grok 4 Fast?

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.2 or Grok 4 Fast better for coding?

GPT-5.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 32.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.2 and Grok 4 Fast share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.2 has 67 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 Fast has 30.

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