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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs GPT-5.2

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Winner summary

GPT-5.2 wins 25 of 28 shared benchmarks. Leads in reasoning · knowledge · general.

Category leads
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Hype vs Reality
Claude Sonnet 4.5
#207 by perf·#10 by attention
OVERHYPED
GPT-5.2
#147 by perf·#4 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
1.4x better value than Claude Sonnet 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5
4.2 pts/$
$9.00/M
GPT-5.2
6.0 pts/$
$7.88/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Claude Sonnet 4.5GPT-5.2
ARC-AGI
GPT-5.2 leads by +22.5
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
Claude Sonnet 4.5
63.7
GPT-5.2
86.2
ARC-AGI-2
GPT-5.2 leads by +39.3
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
Claude Sonnet 4.5
13.6
GPT-5.2
52.9
Chess Puzzles
GPT-5.2 leads by +38.9
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
Claude Sonnet 4.5
7.4
GPT-5.2
46.3
DeepResearch Bench
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads by +11.5
DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses.
Claude Sonnet 4.5
52.6
GPT-5.2
41.1
Dtbench
GPT-5.2 leads by +12.9
Claude Sonnet 4.5
72.0
GPT-5.2
84.9
Ebr Bench
GPT-5.2 leads by +20.6
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2.4
GPT-5.2
23.0
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
GPT-5.2 leads by +25.5
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
Claude Sonnet 4.5
15.2
GPT-5.2
40.7
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
GPT-5.2 leads by +14.6
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
Claude Sonnet 4.5
4.2
GPT-5.2
18.8
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
GPT-5.2 leads by +29.3
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2.4
GPT-5.2
31.7
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
GPT-5.2 leads by +43.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5
23.9
GPT-5.2
67.4
Gdpval
GPT-5.2 leads by +7.2
Claude Sonnet 4.5
42.5
GPT-5.2
49.7
GPQA diamond
GPT-5.2 leads by +12.1
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Claude Sonnet 4.5
76.4
GPT-5.2
88.5
GSO-Bench
GPT-5.2 leads by +12.7
GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues.
Claude Sonnet 4.5
14.7
GPT-5.2
27.4
HLE
GPT-5.2 leads by +14.8
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 46.9% without tools and 54.7% with tools · making it one of the few benchmarks where the top score is below 60%.
Claude Sonnet 4.5
9.4
GPT-5.2
24.2
Lmca
GPT-5.2 leads by +6.1
Claude Sonnet 4.5
45.6
GPT-5.2
51.7
Metr Time Horizons
GPT-5.2 leads by +7.9
Claude Sonnet 4.5
67.4
GPT-5.2
75.3
Mystery Game Puzzles
GPT-5.2 leads by +6.6
Claude Sonnet 4.5
8.6
GPT-5.2
15.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
GPT-5.2 leads by +18.3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Claude Sonnet 4.5
77.8
GPT-5.2
96.1
PostTrainBench
GPT-5.2 leads by +11.4
Claude Sonnet 4.5
9.9
GPT-5.2
21.4
Proofbench
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads by +4.0
Claude Sonnet 4.5
19.0
GPT-5.2
15.0
Remote Labor Index
GPT-5.2 leads by +0.4
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2.1
GPT-5.2
2.5
SimpleBench
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads by +10.2
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
Claude Sonnet 4.5
45.2
GPT-5.2
35.0
SimpleQA Verified
GPT-5.2 leads by +6.4
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
Claude Sonnet 4.5
30.7
GPT-5.2
37.1
SWE-Bench verified
GPT-5.2 leads by +2.5
SWE-bench Verified · 500 human-validated tasks from 12 real Python repositories (Django, Flask, scikit-learn, sympy, and others). Each task requires the model to produce a git patch that resolves a real GitHub issue and passes the test suite. The verified subset eliminates ambiguous tasks from the original SWE-bench. Claude Mythos Preview leads at 93.9%, crossing 90% for the first time in 2026. Opus 4.6 scores 80.8%. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability.
Claude Sonnet 4.5
71.3
GPT-5.2
73.8
SWE-Bench Verified (Bash Only)
GPT-5.2 leads by +1.2
SWE-Bench Verified (Bash Only) · a curated subset of SWE-bench where models fix real Python repository bugs using only bash commands, no agent frameworks.
Claude Sonnet 4.5
70.6
GPT-5.2
71.8
Terminal Bench
GPT-5.2 leads by +18.4
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 69.4%, demonstrating significant agentic terminal competence.
Claude Sonnet 4.5
46.5
GPT-5.2
64.9
VPCT
GPT-5.2 leads by +66.3
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
Claude Sonnet 4.5
9.7
GPT-5.2
76.0
WeirdML
GPT-5.2 leads by +24.5
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Claude Sonnet 4.5
47.7
GPT-5.2
72.2
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5GPT-5.2
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
63.786.2
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.
13.652.9
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
7.446.3
DeepResearch Bench
DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses.
52.641.1
Dtbench
72.084.9
Ebr Bench
2.423.0
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
15.240.7
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.
4.218.8
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
2.431.7
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
23.967.4
Gdpval
42.549.7
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
76.488.5
GSO-Bench
GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues.
14.727.4
HLE
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 46.9% without tools and 54.7% with tools · making it one of the few benchmarks where the top score is below 60%.
9.424.2
Lmca
45.651.7
Metr Time Horizons
67.475.3
Mystery Game Puzzles
8.615.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
77.896.1
PostTrainBench
9.921.4
Proofbench
19.015.0
Remote Labor Index
2.12.5
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
45.235.0
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
30.737.1
SWE-Bench verified
SWE-bench Verified · 500 human-validated tasks from 12 real Python repositories (Django, Flask, scikit-learn, sympy, and others). Each task requires the model to produce a git patch that resolves a real GitHub issue and passes the test suite. The verified subset eliminates ambiguous tasks from the original SWE-bench. Claude Mythos Preview leads at 93.9%, crossing 90% for the first time in 2026. Opus 4.6 scores 80.8%. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability.
71.373.8
SWE-Bench Verified (Bash Only)
SWE-Bench Verified (Bash Only) · a curated subset of SWE-bench where models fix real Python repository bugs using only bash commands, no agent frameworks.
70.671.8
Terminal Bench
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 69.4%, demonstrating significant agentic terminal competence.
46.564.9
VPCT
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
9.776.0
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
47.772.2
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Sonnet 4.5$3.00$15.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$60.00
OpenAI logoGPT-5.2$1.75$14.00400K tokens (~200 books)$48.13