Model comparison

GPT-5.4 vs Laguna XS.2

GPT-5.4 has enough public results to be ranked (#16); Laguna XS.2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.4 OpenAI

59.4

Rank #16 Confirmed

Laguna XS.2 Poolside

32.9

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.4 scores higher in 2 categories and Laguna XS.2 in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.4 leads 73.5 to 21.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ProofBench: 56% for GPT-5.4 and 0% for Laguna XS.2.
  • Laguna XS.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.4 and Laguna XS.2 specifications
GPT-5.4Laguna XS.2
ProviderOpenAIPoolside
Noometry Index59.432.9
Released2026-03-052026-04-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.50—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked682

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 52.6 (#33), Laguna XS.2: 34.4

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Laguna XS.2
LMArena WebDev14651302
SWE-bench Verified76.9%—
DeepSWE51.8%—
SciCode56.6%—
GSO31.4%—
WeirdML77.7%—
LMArena Coding1497—
MirrorCode15.6%—
ALE-Bench1,607—
AlgoTune1.85—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 46.5 (#13), Laguna XS.2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Laguna XS.2
Terminal-Bench81.8%—
APEX-Agents52.4%—
τ²-bench Banking39.4%—
DeepResearch Bench35.1%—
PostTrainBench19%—
GBAEval45.1%—
LMArena Search1197—
METR Time Horizons74.3%—
Vending-Bench 26,144—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 61.8 (#19), Laguna XS.2: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Laguna XS.2
ARC-AGI-274%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark63.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.3%—
ARC-AGI-193.7%—
CritPt23.4%—
Chess Puzzles44%—
EnigmaEval16%—
Thematic Generalization80%—
EBR-Bench25.4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1485—
Mystery Game Puzzles37%—
DTBench94.4%—
LMCA52%—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.81—
ForecastBench59.5—

Math GPT-5.4 leads

GPT-5.4: 73.5 (#19), Laguna XS.2: 21.1

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 65.3 (#14), Laguna XS.2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Laguna XS.2
GPQA Diamond93.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7%—
LMArena Expert1507—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 43.7 (#20), Laguna XS.2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Laguna XS.2
LMArena Vision1303—
Blueprint-Bench 227.1%—
Furniture Assembly37.5%—
LMArena Document1471—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 56.2 (#23), Laguna XS.2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Laguna XS.2
LMArena Non-English1465—
LMArena Chinese1519—
LMArena French1493—
LMArena German1472—
LMArena Japanese1485—
LMArena Korean1448—
LMArena Russian1480—
LMArena Spanish1454—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 77.1 (#27), Laguna XS.2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Laguna XS.2
LMArena Instruction Following1469—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 50.3 (#8), Laguna XS.2: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Laguna XS.2
CL-bench27.9%—
CL-bench Life21.7%—
LMArena Longer Query1473—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.4: 71.9 (#17), Laguna XS.2: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4Laguna XS.2
LMArena Text1469—
LMArena Creative Writing1439—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41272—
LMArena Multi-Turn1482—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.4 better than Laguna XS.2?

GPT-5.4 has enough public results to be ranked (#16); Laguna XS.2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is GPT-5.4 or Laguna XS.2 better for coding?

GPT-5.4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 52.6 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.4 and Laguna XS.2 share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.4 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Laguna XS.2 has 2.

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