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GPT-4o (2024-05-13) vs GPT-5.2

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

Winner summary

GPT-5.2 wins 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena · knowledge · math.

Category leads
arena·GPT-5.2knowledge·GPT-5.2math·GPT-5.2
Hype vs Reality
GPT-4o (2024-05-13)
#110 by perf·no signal
QUIET
GPT-5.2
#147 by perf·#4 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
1.2x better value than GPT-4o (2024-05-13)
GPT-4o (2024-05-13)
5.1 pts/$
$10.00/M
GPT-5.2
6.0 pts/$
$7.88/M
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
GPT-4o (2024-05-13)GPT-5.2
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
GPT-5.2 leads by +89.5
GPT-4o (2024-05-13)
1346.1
GPT-5.2
1435.6
GPQA diamond
GPT-5.2 leads by +56.7
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
GPT-4o (2024-05-13)
31.9
GPT-5.2
88.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
GPT-5.2 leads by +90.0
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
GPT-4o (2024-05-13)
6.2
GPT-5.2
96.1
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGPT-4o (2024-05-13)GPT-5.2
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1346.11435.6
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
31.988.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
6.296.1
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-4o (2024-05-13)$5.00$15.00128K tokens (~64 books)$75.00
OpenAI logoGPT-5.2$1.75$14.00400K tokens (~200 books)$48.13