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Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-5.2

The readout for Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.2, before the detailed comparison sheet.

Model A

Claude Opus 4.8

Anthropic

Leading
vs

Model B

GPT-5.2

OpenAI

Contender

Key Takeaways

Weighted outcome: Claude Opus 4.8. Benchmark capability categories carry 80%, while price, API performance, and availability carry 20%.

Decision read

Claude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8 has the higher weighted result; Model A / B score 72.6 to 27.4.

Evidence depth

130 data points

Includes 33 benchmark rows, 0 audit samples, and 10 provider examples.

Selection signal

Start with Claude Opus 4.8

The charts below split 43 high-signal samples across speed, scores, and audit health.

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Comparison sheet

This report only uses LMSpeed data for Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.2: pricing, speed aggregates, third-party benchmark scores, and shared provider samples.

Model compare
Claude Opus 4.8
GPT-5.2
Overall leaderLeadingContender
Weighted overall score72.6 pts27.4 pts
Benchmark category leads6 categories1 categories
Operational advantagesAverage speedCheapest input price, First-token latency, Free providers, Provider coverage
Context window1M tokens400K tokens
Max output128K tokens128K tokens
Modalities

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Features
Text inputImage inputFile inputText outputTool callingStructured outputsJSON modeReasoning
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The overall result weights benchmark capability categories at 80% and price, API speed/latency, and availability at 20%. Recent test volume does not affect the winner, and missing benchmark categories are excluded.

Model metadata

Model compare
Claude Opus 4.8
GPT-5.2
DeveloperAnthropicOpenAI
ReleasedMay 2026Dec 2025
ParametersNo dataNo data
TokenizerClaudeGPT
Knowledge cutoffNo dataNo data
OpenRouter IDanthropic/claude-opus-4.8openai/gpt-5.2
ReferencesNo dataNo data

When to choose each model

This report only uses LMSpeed data for Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.2: pricing, speed aggregates, third-party benchmark scores, and shared provider samples.

Claude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8 is stronger in benchmark categories (Agents, Coding, Reasoning, Knowledge, Math) and operational dimensions (Average speed).

GPT-5.2

GPT-5.2 is stronger in benchmark categories (Instruction following) and operational dimensions (Cheapest input price, First-token latency, Free providers, Provider coverage).

Benchmark score comparison

Third-party benchmark profile synced into LMSpeed; only metrics available for both models are shown.

Category performance

Compare benchmark category scores on a 0-100 scale. Select a category to inspect the gap.

Model A coverage
8 / 8
Model B coverage
7 / 8
Shared
7 shared categories

Avg. score

Claude Opus 4.8

58.1

Avg. score

GPT-5.2

51.8

Agents

Claude Opus 4.8 leads by 14.8

Claude Opus 4.861.8
GPT-5.247

Coding

Claude Opus 4.8 leads by 7.7

Claude Opus 4.864
GPT-5.256.3

Reasoning

Claude Opus 4.8 leads by 2.8

Claude Opus 4.855.9
GPT-5.253.1

Knowledge

Claude Opus 4.8 leads by 7.7

Claude Opus 4.862.1
GPT-5.254.4

Math

Claude Opus 4.8 leads by 1.9

Claude Opus 4.857.2
GPT-5.255.3

Multilingual

Claude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.855
GPT-5.2-

Multimodal

Claude Opus 4.8 leads by 16.8

Claude Opus 4.859
GPT-5.242.2

Instruction following

GPT-5.2 leads by 4.6

Claude Opus 4.850
GPT-5.254.6

Professional benchmark details

Metric-level scores with benchmark source, rank depth, confidence, error, and evaluation date where available.

Aggregatereported

BenchLM overall score

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

73.0

Rank #10/111 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+22.0

GPT-5.2

51.0

Rank #78/111 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Pricingverified

Input price

SourceClaude Opus 4.8 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)

Claude Opus 4.8

$5.00/M

Rank #168/186 · confidence 4

+$3.25/M

GPT-5.2

winner

$1.75/M

Rank #140/186 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Blended price

SourceClaude Opus 4.8 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)

Claude Opus 4.8

$10.00/M

Rank #169/186 · confidence 4

+$5.19/M

GPT-5.2

winner

$4.81/M

Rank #155/186 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Output price

SourceClaude Opus 4.8 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)

Claude Opus 4.8

$25.00/M

Rank #169/186 · confidence 4

+$11.00/M

GPT-5.2

winner

$14.00/M

Rank #156/186 · confidence 4

Reasoningverified

HLE

SourceClaude Opus 4.8 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

48.7%

Rank #7/216 · confidence 4

+40.7%

GPT-5.2

8.0%

Rank #134/216 · confidence 4

Reasoningreported

AA-LCR

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

77.7

Rank #37/106 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+5.0

GPT-5.2

winner

82.7

Rank #11/106 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Reasoningreported

ARC-AGI-2

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

72.1

Rank #12/19 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+19.2

GPT-5.2

52.9

Rank #15/19 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Reasoningreported

CritPt

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

20.9

Rank #13/88 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+9.3

GPT-5.2

11.6

Rank #31/88 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Reasoningverified

GPQA

SourceClaude Opus 4.8 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

92.0%

Rank #19/218 · confidence 4

+20.8%

GPT-5.2

71.2%

Rank #138/218 · confidence 4

Reasoningreported

BenchLM Reasoning score

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

55.5

Rank #53/67 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+1.8

GPT-5.2

53.7

Rank #55/67 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Codingreported

SWE-bench Verified

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

88.6

Rank #3/49 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+8.6

GPT-5.2

80.0

Rank #14/49 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Codingreported

SWE-bench Pro

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

69.2

Rank #4/50 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+13.6

GPT-5.2

55.6

Rank #33/50 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Codingreported

BenchLM Coding score

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

73.1

Rank #10/87 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+26.6

GPT-5.2

46.5

Rank #64/87 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Codingreported

AA-SciCode

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

54.4

Rank #21/113 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+2.3

GPT-5.2

52.1

Rank #28/113 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Mathreported

FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4)

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

31.3

Rank #8/36 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+12.4

GPT-5.2

18.8

Rank #12/36 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Mathreported

FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

47.2

Rank #8/47 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+6.5

GPT-5.2

40.7

Rank #10/47 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Mathreported

BenchLM Math score

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

65.4

Rank #23/63 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+7.9

GPT-5.2

57.5

Rank #31/63 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Knowledgereported

AA-HLE

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

48.7

Rank #6/114 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+11.0

GPT-5.2

37.7

Rank #33/114 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Knowledgereported

BenchLM Knowledge score

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

86.3

Rank #6/83 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+9.1

GPT-5.2

77.2

Rank #23/83 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Knowledgereported

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

42.0

Rank #18/117 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+11.5

GPT-5.2

30.4

Rank #47/117 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Knowledgereported

AA-Omniscience Accuracy

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

48.8

Rank #19/106 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+4.5

GPT-5.2

44.3

Rank #27/106 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Knowledgereported

AA-GPQA Diamond

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

92.0

Rank #21/113 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+1.7

GPT-5.2

90.3

Rank #32/113 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Knowledgereported

AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

39.3

Rank #88/106 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+41.9

GPT-5.2

winner

81.2

Rank #40/106 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Multimodalreported

BenchLM Multimodal Grounded score

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

87.8

Rank #4/56 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+21.5

GPT-5.2

66.3

Rank #31/56 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Multimodalreported

CharXiv

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

89.9

Rank #5/30 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+7.8

GPT-5.2

82.1

Rank #13/30 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Multimodalreported

Design Arena Website

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

1269.0

Rank #31/78 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+60.0

GPT-5.2

1209.0

Rank #47/78 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Instruction followingreported

BenchLM Instruction Following score

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

75.4

Rank #43/52 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+17.2

GPT-5.2

winner

92.6

Rank #10/52 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Instruction followingreported

AA-IFBench

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

62.2

Rank #48/84 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+13.2

GPT-5.2

winner

75.4

Rank #18/84 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Agentsreported

Gert Labs

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

73.0

Rank #1/49 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+26.4

GPT-5.2

46.5

Rank #28/49 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Agentsreported

OSWorld-Verified

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

83.4

Rank #4/27 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+36.1

GPT-5.2

47.3

Rank #26/27 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Agentsreported

BrowseComp

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

84.3

Rank #10/32 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+18.5

GPT-5.2

65.8

Rank #25/32 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Agentsreported

BenchLM Agentic score

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

76.7

Rank #21/76 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+53.6

GPT-5.2

23.1

Rank #71/76 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

Agentsreported

τ²-bench results

SourceClaude Opus 4.8

Claude Opus 4.8

winner

94.4

Rank #22/82 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-05-28

+9.6

GPT-5.2

84.8

Rank #46/82 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

API audit comparison

Latest completed audits from shared providers, with four safety and integrity score groups plus report links.

Provider
Claude Opus 4.8
GPT-5.2
No completed audits are available from shared providers yet.

Provider examples

Speed aggregates and input/output pricing share each provider row for real API selection and migration cost checks.

Provider
Claude Opus 4.8
GPT-5.2
BUZZ10 tests

Claude Opus 4.8

speed / latency

50 tok/s / 4823ms

input / output

No data

GPT-5.2

speed / latency

64 tok/s / 3553ms

input / output

No data

Fusecode10 tests

Claude Opus 4.8

speed / latency

43 tok/s / 2368ms

input / output

No data

GPT-5.2

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

PackyCode10 tests

Claude Opus 4.8

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

GPT-5.2

speed / latency

94 tok/s / 11492ms

input / output

No data

Right Code10 tests

Claude Opus 4.8

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

GPT-5.2

speed / latency

53 tok/s / 1877ms

input / output

No data

Fucheers5 tests

Claude Opus 4.8

speed / latency

47 tok/s / 3308ms

input / output

No data

GPT-5.2

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

180txt API

Claude Opus 4.8

claude-opus-4-8

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.750/M/$3.75/M

GPT-5.2

gpt-5.2

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/M/$0/M

兔子API

Claude Opus 4.8

claude-opus-4-8

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/request

GPT-5.2

gpt-5.2

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/request

Yun API

Claude Opus 4.8

claude-opus-4-8

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.342/M/$1.71/M

GPT-5.2

gpt-5.2

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.0014/request

KFCV50

Claude Opus 4.8

claude-opus-4-8

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.017/request

GPT-5.2

gpt-5.2

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.0068/request

Newagiai

Claude Opus 4.8

claude-opus-4-8-thinking

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.548/M/$2.74/M

GPT-5.2

gpt-5.2-all

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.0068/request

FAQ

Weighted outcome: Claude Opus 4.8. Benchmark capability categories carry 80%, while price, API performance, and availability carry 20%.

Why is this comparison indexable?
It has 6 verifiable comparison points, and both models have pricing or benchmark data.
Are missing metrics invented?
No. Metrics without LMSpeed data are omitted from this report.

Rankings are based on community-submitted tests and periodic health probes. Advisory only, not official data.