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GPT-5.2 vs O1

The readout for GPT-5.2 and O1, before the detailed comparison sheet.

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 86.7 to 13.3.

Evidence depth

105 data points

Includes 21 benchmark rows, 0 audit samples, and 9 provider examples.

Selection signal

Start with GPT-5.2

The charts below split 30 high-signal samples across speed, scores, and audit health.

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Comparison sheet

This report only uses LMSpeed data for GPT-5.2 and O1: pricing, speed aggregates, third-party benchmark scores, and shared provider samples.

Model compare
GPT-5.2
O1
Overall leaderLeadingContender
Weighted overall score86.7 pts13.3 pts
Benchmark category leads5 categories1 categories
Operational advantagesCheapest input price, Free providers, Provider coverageNo data
Context window400K tokens200K tokens
Max output128K tokens100K 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
O1
DeveloperOpenAIOpenAI
ReleasedDec 2025Dec 2024
ParametersNo dataNo data
TokenizerGPTGPT
Knowledge cutoffNo data2023-10-31
OpenRouter IDopenai/gpt-5.2openai/o1
ReferencesNo dataNo data

When to choose each model

This report only uses LMSpeed data for GPT-5.2 and O1: pricing, speed aggregates, third-party benchmark scores, and shared provider samples.

GPT-5.2

GPT-5.2 is stronger in benchmark categories (Agents, Coding, Reasoning, Math, Instruction following) and operational dimensions (Cheapest input price, Free providers, Provider coverage).

O1

O1 leads these benchmark categories: Knowledge.

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
6 / 8
Shared
6 shared categories

Avg. score

GPT-5.2

52.4

Avg. score

O1

52.2

Agents

GPT-5.2 leads by 2.0

GPT-5.247.5
O145.5

Coding

GPT-5.2 leads by 5.5

GPT-5.256
O150.5

Reasoning

GPT-5.2 leads by 2.6

GPT-5.253.3
O150.7

Knowledge

O1 leads by 5.3

GPT-5.257.2
O162.5

Math

GPT-5.2 leads by 3.3

GPT-5.255.9
O152.6

Multilingual

No data

GPT-5.2-
O1-

Multimodal

GPT-5.2

GPT-5.242.3
O1-

Instruction following

GPT-5.2 leads by 2.9

GPT-5.254.4
O151.5

Professional benchmark details

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

Pricingverified

Input price

GPT-5.2

winner

$1.75/M

Rank #139/184 · confidence 4

+$13.25/M

O1

$15.00/M

Rank #177/184 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Blended price

GPT-5.2

winner

$4.81/M

Rank #154/184 · confidence 4

+$21.44/M

O1

$26.25/M

Rank #177/184 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Output price

GPT-5.2

winner

$14.00/M

Rank #155/184 · confidence 4

+$46.00/M

O1

$60.00/M

Rank #177/184 · confidence 4

Reasoningreported

AA-LCR

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

79.3

Rank #9/101 · confidence 3 · eval date 2025-12-11

+16.0

O1

63.3

Rank #73/101 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

Reasoningverified

MMLU-Pro

GPT-5.2

winner

87.4%

Rank #11/129 · confidence 4

+3.3%

O1

84.1%

Rank #34/129 · confidence 4

Reasoningreported

CritPt

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

11.6

Rank #28/84 · confidence 3 · eval date 2025-12-11

+11.3

O1

0.3

Rank #79/84 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

Reasoningverified

GPQA

GPT-5.2

71.2%

Rank #136/216 · confidence 4

+3.5%

O1

winner

74.7%

Rank #123/216 · confidence 4

Reasoningverified

HLE

GPT-5.2

winner

8.0%

Rank #131/213 · confidence 4

+1.0%

O1

7.0%

Rank #139/213 · confidence 4

Codingreported

AA-SciCode

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

52.1

Rank #26/109 · confidence 3 · eval date 2025-12-11

+16.3

O1

35.8

Rank #87/109 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

Codingverified

LiveCodeBench

GPT-5.2

66.9%

Rank #36/115 · confidence 4

+1.0%

O1

winner

67.9%

Rank #34/115 · confidence 4

Codingverified

SciCode

GPT-5.2

winner

40.4%

Rank #83/209 · confidence 4

+4.6%

O1

35.8%

Rank #127/209 · confidence 4

Mathreported

FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

40.7

Rank #10/47 · confidence 3 · eval date 2025-12-11

+31.4

O1

9.3

Rank #34/47 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

Mathreported

BenchLM Math score

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

58.4

Rank #29/62 · confidence 3 · eval date 2025-12-11

+25.8

O1

32.6

Rank #48/62 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

Knowledgereported

BenchLM Knowledge score

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

83.7

Rank #10/70 · confidence 3 · eval date 2025-12-11

+19.7

O1

64.0

Rank #44/70 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

Knowledgereported

AA-Omniscience Accuracy

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

44.3

Rank #25/102 · confidence 3 · eval date 2025-12-11

+9.8

O1

34.5

Rank #44/102 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

Knowledgereported

AA-GPQA Diamond

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

90.3

Rank #28/109 · confidence 3 · eval date 2025-12-11

+15.6

O1

74.7

Rank #85/109 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

Knowledgereported

AA-HLE

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

37.7

Rank #29/109 · confidence 3 · eval date 2025-12-11

+30.7

O1

7.0

Rank #86/109 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

Knowledgereported

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

43.3

Rank #30/112 · confidence 3 · eval date 2025-12-11

+26.1

O1

17.2

Rank #91/112 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-09-12

Knowledgereported

AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

81.2

Rank #40/102 · confidence 3 · eval date 2025-12-11

+11.6

O1

69.6

Rank #55/102 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

Instruction followingreported

AA-IFBench

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

75.4

Rank #19/84 · confidence 3 · eval date 2025-12-11

+5.1

O1

70.3

Rank #35/84 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

Agentsreported

τ²-bench results

SourceGPT-5.2

GPT-5.2

winner

84.8

Rank #46/82 · confidence 3 · eval date 2025-12-11

+22.2

O1

62.6

Rank #61/82 · confidence 1 · eval date 2024-12-01

API audit comparison

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

Provider
GPT-5.2
O1
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
O1
N1N15 tests

GPT-5.2

speed / latency

56 tok/s / 1798ms

input / output

No data

O1

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

BUZZ5 tests

GPT-5.2

speed / latency

64 tok/s / 3553ms

input / output

No data

O1

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

Yun API5 tests

GPT-5.2

gpt-5.2

speed / latency

32 tok/s / 1965ms

input / output

$0.0027/request

O1

o1-preview-2024-09-12

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

$2.05/M/$8.22/M

GPT-5.2

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

O1

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

AAAI0 tests

GPT-5.2

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

O1

speed / latency

N/A / N/A

input / output

No data

GPT-5.2

gpt-5.2

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/request

O1

o1-2024-12-17

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0/request

GPT-5.2

gpt-5.2

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.0068/request

O1

o1

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$1.03/M/$4.11/M

GPT-5.2

gpt-5.2-all

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.0068/request

O1

o1-preview-all

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.033/request

GPT-5.2

gpt-5.2-all

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.0068/request

O1

o1-preview-all

speed / latency

No data

input / output

$0.033/request

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 4 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.