Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-5.2 Pro

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 52.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI

52.3

Rank #39 Reported

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 2 categories and GPT-5.2 Pro in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 64.7 to 51.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 72.1% for Claude Opus 4.8 and 54.2% for GPT-5.2 Pro.
  • Claude Opus 4.8 is cheaper at $5 / $25 per million input/output tokens, against $21 / $168 for GPT-5.2 Pro.
  • Claude Opus 4.8 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 400K.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.2 Pro specifications
Claude Opus 4.8GPT-5.2 Pro
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index60.752.3
Released2026-05-282025-12-11
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M400K
Max output128K128K
Input $ / M tokens$5$21
Output $ / M tokens$25$168
Results tracked658

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8GPT-5.2 Pro
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
LMArena Coding1490—
ALE-Bench1,564—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8GPT-5.2 Pro
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16), GPT-5.2 Pro: 51.5 (#33)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8GPT-5.2 Pro
ARC-AGI-272.1%54.2%
SimpleBench64.8%57.4%
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%79.3%
ARC-AGI-192.5%90.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index158.21155.4
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
CritPt20.9%—
Chess Puzzles34%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1482—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
DTBench94.9%—
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
ForecastBench59.9—

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13), GPT-5.2 Pro: 65.3 (#29)

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8GPT-5.2 Pro
GPQA Diamond91%—
SimpleQA Verified53%—
LMArena Expert1502—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8GPT-5.2 Pro
LMArena Vision1294—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8GPT-5.2 Pro
LMArena Non-English1450—
LMArena Chinese1507—
LMArena French1481—
LMArena German1472—
LMArena Japanese1440—
LMArena Korean1432—
LMArena Russian1474—
LMArena Spanish1466—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8GPT-5.2 Pro
LMArena Instruction Following1476—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8GPT-5.2 Pro
LMArena Longer Query1483—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), GPT-5.2 Pro: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8GPT-5.2 Pro
LMArena Text1461—
LMArena Creative Writing1454—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—
LMArena Multi-Turn1476—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than GPT-5.2 Pro?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 52.3 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.8 or GPT-5.2 Pro?

Claude Opus 4.8 is cheaper. It lists at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens; GPT-5.2 Pro lists at $21 and $168.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.8 does, with 1M tokens against 400K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.2 Pro share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.2 Pro has 8.

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