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Claude Opus 4.5 vs GPT-5.2-Codex

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Winner summary

Claude Opus 4.5 wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in agentic.

Category leads
agentic·Claude Opus 4.5
Hype vs Reality
Claude Opus 4.5
#113 by perf·no signal
QUIET
GPT-5.2-Codex
#15 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
3.0x better value than Claude Opus 4.5
Claude Opus 4.5
3.0 pts/$
$15.00/M
GPT-5.2-Codex
9.0 pts/$
$7.88/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Claude Opus 4.5GPT-5.2-Codex
SWE-Bench Pro (Public)
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +4.9
Claude Opus 4.5
45.9
GPT-5.2-Codex
41.0
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5GPT-5.2-Codex
SWE-Bench Pro (Public)
45.941.0
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 4.5$5.00$25.00200K tokens (~100 books)$100.00
OpenAI logoGPT-5.2-Codex$1.75$14.00400K tokens (~200 books)$48.13