Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-5.2 leads with 43.4% higher average benchmark score. Overall, GPT-5.2 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
OpenAI
GPT-4o, released by OpenAI in May 2024, is a multimodal large language model from the GPT-4 family that natively processes text, image, and audio inputs in a single end-to-end model. It features a 128K token context window and demonstrated competitive performance across coding, reasoning, and vision benchmarks at its release. GPT-4o targets general-purpose assistant applications, vision-enabled workflows, and use cases requiring low-latency multimodal understanding.
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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GPT-4o
OpenAI
2024-05-13

GPT-5.2
OpenAI
2025-12-11
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks
GPT-4o
GPT-5.2
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
GPT-4o
GPT-4o
2024-04
GPT-5.2
2025-08
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-4o
OpenAI
GPT-5.2
GPT-4o
GPT-5.2
GPT-4o
GPT-5.2
GPT-5.2