Model comparison

GPT-5.2 vs o1

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 34 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.2 OpenAI

54.1

Rank #34 Confirmed

o1 OpenAI

40.9

Rank #143 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 34 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.2 scores higher in 8 categories and o1 in 2 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.2 leads 60.0 to 36.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 86.2% for GPT-5.2 and 30.7% for o1.
  • GPT-5.2 is cheaper at $1.75 / $14 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $60 for o1.
  • GPT-5.2 accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

GPT-5.2 and o1 specifications
GPT-5.2o1
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index54.140.9
Released2025-12-112024-09-12
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window400K200K
Max output128K100K
Input $ / M tokens$1.75$15
Output $ / M tokens$14$60
Results tracked6752

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 51.6 (#37), o1: 46.1 (#70)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2o1
WeirdML72.2%47.6%
LMArena Coding14471367
SWE-bench Verified73.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)72.8%—
Aider Polyglot—61.7%
LMArena WebDev1416—
SWE-bench Multilingual66.7%—
GSO27.4%—
LiveBench Coding—69.7%
CadEval—56%
ALE-Bench1,294—
AlgoTune2.05—
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—80.2%

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 40.2 (#24), o1: 24.6 (#117)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2o1
METR Time Horizons75.3%51.1%
Terminal-Bench64.9%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard55.9%—
GDPval49.7%—
Remote Labor Index2.5%—
τ²-bench Airline83%—
τ²-bench Banking32.2%—
τ²-bench Retail81.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom89.7%—
Cybench—10%
DeepResearch Bench41.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
Vending-Bench 23,591—

Reasoning GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 50.2 (#35), o1: 27.9 (#111)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2o1
SimpleBench45.8%41.7%
ARC-AGI-186.2%30.7%
Chess Puzzles49%15%
EnigmaEval10.4%5.7%
LMArena Hard Prompts14451371
DTBench90.9%74.7%
LMCA43.9%22.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index153.45141.91
ARC-AGI-252.9%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)83.6%—
EBR-Bench23%—
LiveBench Reasoning—91.6%
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—65.5%
ForecastBench60.1—
LiveBench—75.7%

Math GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 60.0 (#38), o1: 36.1 (#175)

Knowledge GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 59.3 (#32), o1: 41.5 (#110)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2o1
GPQA Diamond91.4%76.8%
Humanity's Last Exam27.8%8%
SimpleQA Verified37.1%41.1%
LMArena Expert14451361
Confabulations—11.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.4%—

Multimodal GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 51.3 (#7), o1: 34.2 (#93)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2o1
LMArena Vision12681168
VPCT84%37%
GeoBench—80%
Furniture Assembly38.3%—
LMArena Document1405—
SpatialViz-Bench—41.4%

Multilingual GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 53.4 (#67), o1: 48.6 (#142)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2o1
LMArena Non-English14251358
LMArena Chinese14601394
LMArena French14551344
LMArena German14481337
LMArena Japanese14201346
LMArena Korean13921396
LMArena Russian14401356
LMArena Spanish14331345

Instruction Following Too close to call

GPT-5.2: 74.7 (#89), o1: 74.8 (#86)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2o1
LMArena Instruction Following14171367
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.5%

Long Context o1 leads

GPT-5.2: 44.0 (#78), o1: 50.3 (#9)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2o1
LMArena Longer Query14281378
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%
CL-bench18.2%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 66.8 (#32), o1: 55.6 (#144)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2o1
LMArena Text14391366
LMArena Creative Writing14011348
LMArena Multi-Turn14581369
Short-Story Creative Writing—70.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1703—
LiveBench Language—65.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.2 better than o1?

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.2 or o1?

GPT-5.2 is cheaper. It lists at $1.75 per million input tokens and $14 per million output tokens; o1 lists at $15 and $60.

Is GPT-5.2 or o1 better for coding?

GPT-5.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 46.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

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

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.2 and o1 share?

34 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.2 has 67 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.

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