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Gemini 4 Carbon vs GPT-5.2-Codex

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · Gemini 4 Carbon · GPT-5.2-Codex are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
Gemini 4 Carbon
#1 by perf·#8 by attention
DESERVED
GPT-5.2-Codex
#19 by perf·#9 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
1.6x better value than GPT-5.2-Codex
Gemini 4 Carbon
14.3 pts/$
$6.00/M
GPT-5.2-Codex
9.0 pts/$
$7.88/M
Vendor risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$3.61T·Tier 1
Low risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Google DeepMind logoGemini 4 Carbon$2.00$10.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$40.00
OpenAI logoGPT-5.2-Codex$1.75$14.00400K tokens (~200 books)$48.13