Model comparison

GPT-5.2 Pro vs Kimi K3

Kimi K3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.5 to 52.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI

52.3

Rank #39 Reported

Kimi K3 Moonshot AI

59.5

Rank #15 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.2 Pro scores higher in 0 categories and Kimi K3 in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Kimi K3 leads 63.0 to 51.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 79.3% for GPT-5.2 Pro and 93.6% for Kimi K3.
  • Kimi K3 is cheaper at $3 / $15 per million input/output tokens, against $21 / $168 for GPT-5.2 Pro.
  • Kimi K3 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 400K.
  • Kimi K3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.2 Pro and Kimi K3 specifications
GPT-5.2 ProKimi K3
ProviderOpenAIMoonshot AI
Noometry Index52.359.5
Released2025-12-112026-07-16
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K1.05M
Max output128K1.05M
Input $ / M tokens$21$3
Output $ / M tokens$168$15
Results tracked853

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GPT-5.2 Pro: —, Kimi K3: 61.0 (#10)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2 ProKimi K3
DeepSWE—68.5%
FrontierCode—44.2%
LMArena WebDev—1654
FrontierSWE—25.9%
SciCode—59.5%
WeirdML—82.6%
LMArena Coding—1508
ALE-Bench—1,524

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.2 Pro: —, Kimi K3: 41.8 (#20)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2 ProKimi K3
APEX-Agents—50.6%
τ²-bench Banking—37.1%
PostTrainBench—32%
GBAEval—48.3%
GDP.pdf—19%
Vending-Bench 2—5,165

Reasoning Kimi K3 leads

GPT-5.2 Pro: 51.5 (#33), Kimi K3: 63.0 (#17)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2 ProKimi K3
ARC-AGI-254.2%60.4%
SimpleBench57.4%60.7%
NYT Connections (extended)79.3%93.6%
ARC-AGI-190.5%94.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index155.4157.45
CritPt—23.4%
Chess Puzzles—39%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1496
Mystery Game Puzzles—26%
DTBench—91.2%
LMCA—52.7%
Surface Evolver Bench—95%
ForecastBench—61.1

Math Kimi K3 leads

GPT-5.2 Pro: 65.3 (#29), Kimi K3: 74.2 (#16)

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.2 Pro: —, Kimi K3: 63.2 (#21)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2 ProKimi K3
GPQA Diamond—93.1%
SimpleQA Verified—50.6%
LMArena Expert—1521

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.2 Pro: —, Kimi K3: 37.8 (#70)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2 ProKimi K3
Blueprint-Bench 2—29.5%
Furniture Assembly—34.2%

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.2 Pro: —, Kimi K3: 56.3 (#21)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2 ProKimi K3
LMArena Non-English—1466
LMArena Chinese—1529
LMArena French—1491
LMArena German—1488
LMArena Japanese—1487
LMArena Korean—1458
LMArena Russian—1482
LMArena Spanish—1472

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.2 Pro: —, Kimi K3: 77.7 (#14)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2 ProKimi K3
LMArena Instruction Following—1483

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.2 Pro: —, Kimi K3: 45.8 (#29)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2 ProKimi K3
LMArena Longer Query—1494

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.2 Pro: —, Kimi K3: 76.6 (#4)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2 ProKimi K3
LMArena Text—1476
LMArena Creative Writing—1454
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—2082
EQ-Bench 4—1339
LMArena Multi-Turn—1488

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.2 Pro better than Kimi K3?

Kimi K3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.5 to 52.3 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.2 Pro or Kimi K3?

Kimi K3 is cheaper. It lists at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens; GPT-5.2 Pro lists at $21 and $168.

Which has the bigger context window?

Kimi K3 does, with 1.05M tokens against 400K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.2 Pro and Kimi K3 share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.2 Pro has 8 scored results on Noometry and Kimi K3 has 53.

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