Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-5.2 leads with 52.8% higher average benchmark score. GPT-5.2 supports multimodal inputs. Overall, GPT-5.2 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1, released by DeepSeek on January 20, 2025, is a large reasoning model with 671 billion total parameters (37 billion active in its MoE architecture) designed for extended chain-of-thought reasoning. It features a 128K token context window and demonstrated strong performance on mathematics, coding, and scientific reasoning benchmarks at its release. DeepSeek-R1 targets complex analytical tasks, competitive programming, and applications requiring deep deliberative reasoning under an open MIT license.
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.
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DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
2025-01-20

GPT-5.2
OpenAI
2025-12-11
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks
DeepSeek-R1
GPT-5.2
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
DeepSeek-R1
GPT-5.2
GPT-5.2
2025-08
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
GPT-5.2
DeepSeek-R1
GPT-5.2
DeepSeek-R1
GPT-5.2