Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-5.2 leads with 57.6% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is available on 3 providers. Overall, GPT-5.2 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude 3.5 Sonnet, updated by Anthropic in October 2024 (originally released June 2024), is a large language model from the Claude 3.5 family that delivered strong performance in coding, reasoning, and instruction-following at its release. It supports a 200K token context window, 8K maximum output tokens, and native image understanding including screenshot analysis and document comprehension. Claude 3.5 Sonnet targets general-purpose development tasks, document analysis, and applications requiring reliable instruction following with visual input support.
OpenAI
GPT-5.2, released by OpenAI on December 11, 2025, is a large language model from the GPT-5 family that improves on GPT-5 in general intelligence, long-context understanding, agentic tool-calling, and vision. It features a 400K token context window, 128K maximum output tokens, and a knowledge cutoff of August 2025. GPT-5.2 targets long-context coding tasks, extended document analysis, and complex agentic workflows requiring reliable instruction following.
1 year newer

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-10-22

GPT-5.2
OpenAI
2025-12-11
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
GPT-5.2
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
GPT-5.2
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
2024-04
GPT-5.2
2025-08
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
GPT-5.2
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
GPT-5.2
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
GPT-5.2