Model comparison

GPT-5.2 vs o1-mini

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.2 OpenAI

54.1

Rank #34 Confirmed

o1-mini OpenAI

34.0

Rank #235 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.2 scores higher in 9 categories and o1-mini in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.2 leads 50.2 to 8.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 86.2% for GPT-5.2 and 14% for o1-mini.

Side by side

GPT-5.2 and o1-mini specifications
GPT-5.2o1-mini
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index54.134.0
Released2025-12-112024-09-12
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.75—
Output $ / M tokens$14—
Results tracked6739

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 51.6 (#37), o1-mini: 35.5 (#224)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2o1-mini
WeirdML72.2%36.3%
LMArena Coding14471362
SWE-bench Verified73.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)72.8%—
Aider Polyglot—32.9%
LMArena WebDev1416—
SWE-bench Multilingual66.7%—
GSO27.4%—
LiveBench Coding—48%
ALE-Bench1,294—
AlgoTune2.05—
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—78.8%

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 40.2 (#24), o1-mini: 24.6 (#118)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2o1-mini
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—
METR Time Horizons75.3%—
Vending-Bench 23,591—

Reasoning GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 50.2 (#35), o1-mini: 8.8 (#346)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2o1-mini
ARC-AGI-252.9%0.8%
SimpleBench45.8%18.1%
ARC-AGI-186.2%14%
LMArena Hard Prompts14451333
Epoch Capabilities Index153.45135.82
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)83.6%—
Chess Puzzles49%—
EnigmaEval10.4%—
EBR-Bench23%—
LiveBench Reasoning—72.3%
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
DTBench90.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—57.9%
LMCA43.9%—
ForecastBench60.1—
LiveBench—57.8%

Math GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 60.0 (#38), o1-mini: 35.4 (#186)

Knowledge GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 59.3 (#32), o1-mini: 34.9 (#192)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2o1-mini
GPQA Diamond91.4%62.4%
LMArena Expert14451316
Humanity's Last Exam27.8%—
SimpleQA Verified37.1%—
Confabulations—18.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.4%—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 51.3 (#7), o1-mini: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2o1-mini
LMArena Vision1268—
VPCT84%—
Furniture Assembly38.3%—
LMArena Document1405—

Multilingual GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 53.4 (#67), o1-mini: 43.6 (#182)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2o1-mini
LMArena Non-English14251289
LMArena Chinese14601314
LMArena French14551293
LMArena German14481278
LMArena Japanese14201245
LMArena Korean13921223
LMArena Russian14401283
LMArena Spanish14331303

Instruction Following GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 74.7 (#89), o1-mini: 66.7 (#206)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2o1-mini
LMArena Instruction Following14171304
LiveBench Instruction Following—65.4%

Long Context GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 44.0 (#78), o1-mini: 40.1 (#161)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2o1-mini
LMArena Longer Query14281320
CL-bench18.2%—

Writing & Preference GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 66.8 (#32), o1-mini: 48.4 (#202)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2o1-mini
LMArena Text14391317
LMArena Creative Writing14011244
LMArena Multi-Turn14581314
Short-Story Creative Writing—64.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1703—
LiveBench Language—40.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.2 better than o1-mini?

GPT-5.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 34.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.2 or o1-mini better for coding?

GPT-5.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.2 and o1-mini share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.2 has 67 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.

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