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GPT-5.2-Codex vs phi-3-small 7.4B

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

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · GPT-5.2-Codex · phi-3-small 7.4B are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
GPT-5.2-Codex
#17 by perf·#4 by attention
DESERVED
phi-3-small 7.4B
#28 by perf·#20 by attention
UNDERRATED
Best value
GPT-5.2-Codex
9.0 pts/$
$7.88/M
phi-3-small 7.4B
n/a
no price
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Microsoft logo
Microsoft
$3.84T·Big Tech
Low risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-5.2-Codex$1.75$14.00400K tokens (~200 books)$48.13
Microsoft logophi-3-small 7.4B————