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GPT-5.2

A fast-follow answer to Gemini 3 focused on professional knowledge work.

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Overall Intelligence

#26

of 56
10.0 pts behind #1

0

races led

147

weeks at #1

78.7

score

Released: Dec 11, 2025; 10 mo ago
Context: 400K; 128K max output
Price: $1.75 / $14; per 1M in/out · $4.81 blended
Speed: 80 tok/s; 7s to first token
Modalities: text · image · audio · video; outputs text
Weights: Closed; API and apps

The 30-second version

A fast-follow answer to Gemini 3 focused on professional knowledge work.

Key takeaways

1A fast-follow answer to Gemini 3 focused on professional knowledge work.

Where it ranks

Current snapshot · illustrative scores · click any race to watch it

GPT-5.2Best on each axis

Overall

26Overall+10.0 pts

Coding

26Coding+12.9 pts 27Frontend & UI+75 Elo 26Backend & APIs+12.1 pts 25Distributed Systems+14.5 pts 28Full-Stack Apps+13.8 pts 24Debugging & Repair+13.3 pts 28Agentic Coding+15.6 pts 26Code Review & Security+12.0 pts 25Data Science & SQL+9.8 pts 28Mobile Apps+11.2 pts 26Terminal & DevOps+15.6 pts 21Competitive Programming+300

Hard Reasoning

22Hard Reasoning+11.0 pts 22Frontier Questions+19.4 pts 22Abstract & Novel Reasoning+16.3 pts 20Logic & Puzzles+7.9 pts 25Planning & Strategy+12.0 pts

Math

20Math+10.6 pts 19Competition Math+7.5 pts 20Research Math+14.6 pts 21Applied & Quantitative+9.2 pts

Science

23Science+11.2 pts 21Graduate Science QA+6.6 pts 25Biology & Medicine+11.1 pts 18Physics & Chemistry+8.2 pts 26Research Assistance+11.2 pts

Writing & Language

27Writing & Language+11.9 pts 30Creative Writing+86 Elo 23Technical Writing+10.0 pts 23Editing & Style+8.7 pts 29Multilingual+8.9 pts 21Instruction Following+8.0 pts 25Conversation & EQ+72 Elo

Multimodal

18Multimodal+15.9 pts 21Image Understanding+10.5 pts 25Documents & Charts+12.6 pts 23Video Understanding+20.8 pts 16Speech & Audio+10.8 pts

Tool Use & Agents

23Tool Use & Agents+12.0 pts 23Tool Use+8.8 pts 25Computer Use+18.4 pts 22Web Research+14.9 pts 23Long-Horizon+22.2 hrs

Long Context

29Long Context+16.0 pts 321M Recall+14.2 pts 26Long Reasoning+13.1 pts

Speed & Cost

40Speed & Cost+46.0 pts 28Output Speed+440 tok/s 45Latency+6.62s 33Cost-Efficiency+48.1 pts

Trust & Factuality

28Trust & Factuality+13.0 pts 28Factuality+10.4 pts 28Honesty & Calibration+11.2 pts

Overall Intelligence over time

#1 frontierGPT-5.2GPT-6 LunaV4 Pro

Update history

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The GPT-5 family

GPT-5August 2025 GPT-5.1November 2025 GPT-5.2December 2025 GPT-5.4March 2026 GPT-5.5April 2026

60-second briefing

GPT-5.2, explained

AI video summary · placeholder render from the auto-written script

From OpenAI's own guide, distilled

Prompting guides for GPT-5 and later models

Reasoning models do their own step-by-step thinking; give goals and constraints rather than scripting the chain of thought.
Use the reasoning-effort and verbosity controls instead of prompt tricks to trade depth for speed.
Contradictory instructions waste reasoning tokens; audit system prompts for conflicts.
For agents, define stop conditions and how eager the model should be to keep going without asking.
Structured outputs (JSON schema) beat asking politely for a format.

All official guides, distilled →

About OpenAI

Maker of ChatGPT and the GPT series, pursuing general-purpose AI at consumer scale.

Optimising for

Frontier reasoning and math, broad consumer usefulness inside ChatGPT, and tiered models (Astra, Sol, Luna) that trade depth for price and speed.

San Francisco, US · founded 2015

Closest rivals

GPT-5.2 is 26th in overall intelligence; leader is Claude Opus 5.5.