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GPT-5.4 Pro vs GPT-5.2 Pro vs GPT-5.4

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Winner summary

GPT-5.4 Pro wins 8 of 8 shared benchmarks. Leads in reasoning · math · knowledge.

Category leads
reasoning·GPT-5.4 Promath·GPT-5.4 Proknowledge·GPT-5.4 Pro
Hype vs Reality
GPT-5.4 Pro
#26 by perf·no signal
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GPT-5.2 Pro
#62 by perf·no signal
QUIET
GPT-5.4
#46 by perf·no signal
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Best value
10.6x better value than GPT-5.4 Pro
GPT-5.4 Pro
0.6 pts/$
$105.00/M
GPT-5.2 Pro
0.6 pts/$
$94.50/M
GPT-5.4
6.7 pts/$
$8.75/M
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
GPT-5.4 ProGPT-5.2 ProGPT-5.4
ARC-AGI
GPT-5.4 Pro leads by +0.8
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
GPT-5.4 Pro
94.5
GPT-5.2 Pro
90.5
GPT-5.4
93.7
ARC-AGI-2
GPT-5.4 Pro leads by +9.4
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
GPT-5.4 Pro
83.3
GPT-5.2 Pro
54.2
GPT-5.4
74.0
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
GPT-5.4 Pro leads by +6.2
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
GPT-5.4 Pro
37.5
GPT-5.2 Pro
31.3
GPT-5.4
27.1
Chess Puzzles
GPT-5.4 Pro leads by +14.6
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
GPT-5.4 Pro
58.6
GPT-5.4
44.0
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
GPT-5.4 Pro leads by +2.4
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
GPT-5.4 Pro
50.0
GPT-5.4
47.6
GPQA diamond
GPT-5.4 Pro leads by +1.7
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
GPT-5.4 Pro
92.8
GPT-5.4
91.1
SimpleBench
GPT-5.4 Pro leads by +20.0
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
GPT-5.4 Pro
68.9
GPT-5.2 Pro
48.9
SimpleQA Verified
GPT-5.4 Pro leads by +3.0
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
GPT-5.4 Pro
47.8
GPT-5.4
44.8
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 ProGPT-5.2 ProGPT-5.4
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
94.590.593.7
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.
83.354.274.0
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.
37.531.327.1
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
58.644.0
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.
50.047.6
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
92.891.1
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
68.948.9
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
47.844.8
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-5.4 Pro$30.00$180.001.1M tokens (~525 books)$675.00
OpenAI logoGPT-5.2 Pro$21.00$168.00400K tokens (~200 books)$577.50
OpenAI logoGPT-5.4$2.50$15.001.1M tokens (~525 books)$56.25