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GPT-5.2 vs GPT-5.4 Mini

The readout for GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.4 Mini, before the detailed comparison sheet.

Model A

GPT-5.2

OpenAI

Leading
vs

Model B

GPT-5.4 Mini

OpenAI

Contender

Key Takeaways

Weighted outcome: GPT-5.2. Benchmark capability categories carry 80%, while price, API performance, and availability carry 20%.

Decision read

GPT-5.2

GPT-5.2 has the higher weighted result; Model A / B score 50.3 to 49.7.

Evidence depth

121 data points

Includes 28 benchmark rows, 0 audit samples, and 10 provider examples.

Selection signal

Start with GPT-5.2

The charts below split 38 high-signal samples across speed, scores, and audit health.

Change comparison

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Comparison sheet

This report only uses LMSpeed data for GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.4 Mini: pricing, speed aggregates, third-party benchmark scores, and shared provider samples.

Model compare
GPT-5.2
GPT-5.4 Mini
Overall leaderLeadingContender
Weighted overall score50.3 pts49.7 pts
Benchmark category leads3 categories4 categories
Operational advantagesCheapest input price, First-token latency, Free providers, Provider coverageAverage speed
Context window400K tokens400K tokens
Max output128K tokens128K tokens
Modalities

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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
GPT-5.2
GPT-5.4 Mini
DeveloperOpenAIOpenAI
ReleasedDec 2025Mar 2026
ParametersNo dataNo data
TokenizerGPTGPT
Knowledge cutoffNo data2025-08-31
OpenRouter IDopenai/gpt-5.2openai/gpt-5.4-mini
ReferencesNo dataNo data

When to choose each model

This report only uses LMSpeed data for GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.4 Mini: pricing, speed aggregates, third-party benchmark scores, and shared provider samples.

GPT-5.2

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

GPT-5.4 Mini

GPT-5.4 Mini is stronger in benchmark categories (Agents, Coding, Reasoning, Multimodal) and operational dimensions (Average speed).

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

Avg. score

GPT-5.2

51.8

Avg. score

GPT-5.4 Mini

51.1

Agents

GPT-5.4 Mini leads by 3.1

GPT-5.247
GPT-5.4 Mini50.1

Coding

GPT-5.4 Mini leads by 0.5

GPT-5.256.3
GPT-5.4 Mini56.8

Reasoning

GPT-5.4 Mini leads by 2.3

GPT-5.253.1
GPT-5.4 Mini55.4

Knowledge

GPT-5.2 leads by 9.0

GPT-5.254.4
GPT-5.4 Mini45.4

Math

GPT-5.2 leads by 6.0

GPT-5.255.3
GPT-5.4 Mini49.3

Multilingual

No data

GPT-5.2-
GPT-5.4 Mini-

Multimodal

GPT-5.4 Mini leads by 4.9

GPT-5.242.2
GPT-5.4 Mini47.1

Instruction following

GPT-5.2 leads by 0.8

GPT-5.254.6
GPT-5.4 Mini53.8

Professional benchmark details

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

Aggregatereported

BenchLM overall score

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

51.0

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

+9.0

GPT-5.4 Mini

winner

60.0

Rank #47/111 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-03-17

Pricingverified

Input price

SourceGPT-5.2 (Non-reasoning)

GPT-5.2

$1.75/M

Rank #140/186 · confidence 4

+$1.00/M

GPT-5.4 Mini

winner

$0.750/M

Rank #107/186 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Blended price

SourceGPT-5.2 (Non-reasoning)

GPT-5.2

$4.81/M

Rank #155/186 · confidence 4

+$3.13/M

GPT-5.4 Mini

winner

$1.69/M

Rank #113/186 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Output price

SourceGPT-5.2 (Non-reasoning)

GPT-5.2

$14.00/M

Rank #156/186 · confidence 4

+$9.50/M

GPT-5.4 Mini

winner

$4.50/M

Rank #125/186 · confidence 4

Reasoningreported

AA-LCR

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

82.7

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

+5.7

GPT-5.4 Mini

77.0

Rank #43/106 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-03-17

Reasoningreported

BenchLM Reasoning score

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

53.7

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

+20.2

GPT-5.4 Mini

winner

73.9

Rank #29/67 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-03-17

Reasoningreported

CritPt

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

11.6

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

+1.6

GPT-5.4 Mini

10.0

Rank #33/88 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-03-17

Reasoningverified

GPQA

SourceGPT-5.2 (Non-reasoning)

GPT-5.2

71.2%

Rank #138/218 · confidence 4

+11.1%

GPT-5.4 Mini

winner

82.3%

Rank #87/218 · confidence 4

Reasoningverified

HLE

SourceGPT-5.2 (Non-reasoning)

GPT-5.2

8.0%

Rank #134/216 · confidence 4

+10.6%

GPT-5.4 Mini

winner

18.6%

Rank #91/216 · confidence 4

Codingreported

Vibe Code Bench

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

53.5

Rank #6/33 · confidence 4 · eval date 2025-12-11

+5.5

GPT-5.4 Mini

48.0

Rank #10/33 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-03-17

Codingreported

AA-SciCode

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

52.1

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

0.0

GPT-5.4 Mini

52.1

Rank #28/113 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-03-17

Codingreported

BenchLM Coding score

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

46.5

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

+9.5

GPT-5.4 Mini

winner

56.0

Rank #36/87 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-03-17

Mathreported

FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

40.7

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

+12.4

GPT-5.4 Mini

28.3

Rank #20/47 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-03-17

Mathreported

FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4)

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

18.8

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

+16.7

GPT-5.4 Mini

2.1

Rank #36/36 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-03-17

Mathreported

BenchLM Math score

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

57.5

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

+13.0

GPT-5.4 Mini

44.5

Rank #39/63 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-03-17

Knowledgereported

AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

81.2

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

+9.0

GPT-5.4 Mini

winner

90.2

Rank #18/106 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-03-17

Knowledgereported

BenchLM Knowledge score

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

77.2

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

+20.2

GPT-5.4 Mini

57.0

Rank #62/83 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-03-17

Knowledgereported

AA-Omniscience Accuracy

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

44.3

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

+6.8

GPT-5.4 Mini

37.5

Rank #44/106 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-03-17

Knowledgereported

AA-GPQA Diamond

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

90.3

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

+2.8

GPT-5.4 Mini

87.5

Rank #46/113 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-03-17

Knowledgereported

AA-HLE

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

37.7

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

+9.6

GPT-5.4 Mini

28.1

Rank #54/114 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-03-17

Knowledgereported

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

30.4

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

+5.9

GPT-5.4 Mini

24.6

Rank #69/117 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-03-17

Multimodalreported

MMMU-Pro

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

79.5

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

+2.9

GPT-5.4 Mini

76.6

Rank #22/31 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-03-17

Multimodalreported

BenchLM Multimodal Grounded score

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

66.3

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

+9.1

GPT-5.4 Mini

57.2

Rank #41/56 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-03-17

Instruction followingreported

BenchLM Instruction Following score

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

92.6

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

+2.8

GPT-5.4 Mini

89.8

Rank #17/52 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-03-17

Instruction followingreported

AA-IFBench

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

75.4

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

+2.1

GPT-5.4 Mini

73.3

Rank #23/84 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-03-17

Agentsreported

OSWorld-Verified

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

47.3

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

+24.8

GPT-5.4 Mini

winner

72.1

Rank #16/27 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-03-17

Agentsreported

τ²-bench results

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

84.8

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

+8.6

GPT-5.4 Mini

winner

93.4

Rank #28/82 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-03-17

Agentsreported

BenchLM Agentic score

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

23.1

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

+32.5

GPT-5.4 Mini

winner

55.6

Rank #48/76 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-03-17

API audit comparison

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

Provider
GPT-5.2
GPT-5.4 Mini
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
GPT-5.2
GPT-5.4 Mini
XShuLab Sub2API25 tests

GPT-5.2

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

GPT-5.4 Mini

speed / latency

139 tok/s / 2844ms

input / output

No data

星见雅 API20 tests

GPT-5.2

speed / latency

52 tok/s / 2671ms

input / output

No data

GPT-5.4 Mini

speed / latency

223 tok/s / 3411ms

input / output

No data

Mars HK15 tests

GPT-5.2

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

GPT-5.4 Mini

speed / latency

128 tok/s / 4452ms

input / output

No data

N1N15 tests

GPT-5.2

speed / latency

56 tok/s / 1798ms

input / output

No data

GPT-5.4 Mini

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

发现AI15 tests

GPT-5.2

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

GPT-5.4 Mini

speed / latency

108 tok/s / 1950ms

input / output

No data

180txt API

GPT-5.2

gpt-5.2-2025-12-11

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/M/$0/M

GPT-5.4 Mini

gpt-5.4-mini

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.547/M/$3.29/M

Dext API

GPT-5.2

gpt-5-2

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/M/$0/M

GPT-5.4 Mini

gpt-5.4-mini

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.062/M/$0.370/M

Moyanjdc API

GPT-5.2

gpt-5.2

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/M/$0/M

GPT-5.4 Mini

gpt-5.4-mini

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/M/$0/M

兔子API

GPT-5.2

gpt-5.2

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/request

GPT-5.4 Mini

gpt-5.4-mini

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/request

Yun API

GPT-5.2

gpt-5.2

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.0027/request

GPT-5.4 Mini

gpt-5.4-mini

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.026/M/$0.154/M

FAQ

Weighted outcome: GPT-5.2. 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.