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R1 0528 vs GPT-5.2

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Winner summary

GPT-5.2 wins 9 of 9 shared benchmarks. Leads in reasoning · arena · knowledge.

Category leads
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Hype vs Reality
R1 0528
#63 by perf·#16 by attention
UNDERRATED
GPT-5.2
#162 by perf·#9 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
7.5x better value than GPT-5.2
R1 0528
43.7 pts/$
$1.32/M
GPT-5.2
5.9 pts/$
$7.88/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
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OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
R1 0528GPT-5.2
ARC-AGI
GPT-5.2 leads by +65.0
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
R1 0528
21.2
GPT-5.2
86.2
ARC-AGI-2
GPT-5.2 leads by +51.8
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
R1 0528
1.1
GPT-5.2
52.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
GPT-5.2 leads by +13.9
R1 0528
1421.6
GPT-5.2
1435.6
DeepResearch Bench
GPT-5.2 leads by +6.0
DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses.
R1 0528
35.1
GPT-5.2
41.1
GPQA diamond
GPT-5.2 leads by +23.8
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
R1 0528
68.4
GPT-5.2
92.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
GPT-5.2 leads by +29.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
R1 0528
66.4
GPT-5.2
96.1
SimpleBench
GPT-5.2 leads by +6.0
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
R1 0528
29.0
GPT-5.2
35.0
SimpleQA Verified
GPT-5.2 leads by +11.5
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
R1 0528
27.4
GPT-5.2
38.9
WeirdML
GPT-5.2 leads by +30.6
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
R1 0528
41.6
GPT-5.2
72.2
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkR1 0528GPT-5.2
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
21.286.2
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.
1.152.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1421.61435.6
DeepResearch Bench
DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses.
35.141.1
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
68.492.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
66.496.1
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
29.035.0
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
27.438.9
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
41.672.2
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoR1 0528$0.50$2.15164K tokens (~82 books)$9.13
OpenAI logoGPT-5.2$1.75$14.00400K tokens (~200 books)$48.13