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Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-5.2 Pro
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Winner summary
Claude Opus 4.8 wins on 5/6 benchmarks
Claude Opus 4.8 wins 5 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in reasoning · math.
Category leads
reasoning·Claude Opus 4.8math·Claude Opus 4.8
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Claude Opus 4.8
#75 by perf·#9 by attention
GPT-5.2 Pro
#61 by perf·#4 by attention
Best value
Claude Opus 4.8
6.1x better value than GPT-5.2 Pro
Claude Opus 4.8
3.7 pts/$
$15.00/M
GPT-5.2 Pro
0.6 pts/$
$94.50/M
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
6 benchmarks · 2 models
Claude Opus 4.8GPT-5.2 Pro
ARC-AGI
Claude Opus 4.8 leads by +2.0
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
Claude Opus 4.8
92.5
GPT-5.2 Pro
90.5
ARC-AGI-2
Claude Opus 4.8 leads by +17.9
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
Claude Opus 4.8
72.1
GPT-5.2 Pro
54.2
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
GPT-5.2 Pro leads by +0.1
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
Claude Opus 4.8
31.3
GPT-5.2 Pro
31.3
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
Claude Opus 4.8 leads by +10.1
Claude Opus 4.8
56.1
GPT-5.2 Pro
46.0
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
Claude Opus 4.8 leads by +6.0
Claude Opus 4.8
80.0
GPT-5.2 Pro
74.0
SimpleBench
Claude Opus 4.8 leads by +8.9
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
Claude Opus 4.8
57.8
GPT-5.2 Pro
48.9
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | GPT-5.2 Pro |
|---|---|---|
ARC-AGI ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization. | 92.5 | 90.5 |
ARC-AGI-2 ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data. | 72.1 | 54.2 |
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning. | 31.3 | 31.3 |
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private | 56.1 | 46.0 |
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private | 80.0 | 74.0 |
SimpleBench SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking. | 57.8 | 48.9 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5.00 | $25.00 | 1.0M tokens (~500 books) | $100.00 | |
| $21.00 | $168.00 | 400K tokens (~200 books) | $577.50 |