Model comparison

GPT-5.2 vs Laguna XS.2

GPT-5.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#34); Laguna XS.2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.2 OpenAI

54.1

Rank #34 Confirmed

Laguna XS.2 Poolside

32.9

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.2 scores higher in 2 categories and Laguna XS.2 in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GPT-5.2 leads 60.0 to 21.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ProofBench: 15% for GPT-5.2 and 0% for Laguna XS.2.
  • Laguna XS.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.2 and Laguna XS.2 specifications
GPT-5.2Laguna XS.2
ProviderOpenAIPoolside
Noometry Index54.132.9
Released2025-12-112026-04-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.75—
Output $ / M tokens$14—
Results tracked672

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 51.6 (#37), Laguna XS.2: 34.4

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Laguna XS.2
LMArena WebDev14161302
SWE-bench Verified73.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)72.8%—
SWE-bench Multilingual66.7%—
GSO27.4%—
WeirdML72.2%—
LMArena Coding1447—
ALE-Bench1,294—
AlgoTune2.05—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 40.2 (#24), Laguna XS.2: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Laguna XS.2
Terminal-Bench64.9%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard55.9%—
GDPval49.7%—
Remote Labor Index2.5%—
τ²-bench Airline83%—
τ²-bench Banking32.2%—
τ²-bench Retail81.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom89.7%—
DeepResearch Bench41.1%—
LMArena Search1207—
METR Time Horizons75.3%—
Vending-Bench 23,591—

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 50.2 (#35), Laguna XS.2: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Laguna XS.2
ARC-AGI-252.9%—
SimpleBench45.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)83.6%—
ARC-AGI-186.2%—
Chess Puzzles49%—
EnigmaEval10.4%—
EBR-Bench23%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1445—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—
DTBench90.9%—
LMCA43.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index153.45—
ForecastBench60.1—

Math GPT-5.2 leads

GPT-5.2: 60.0 (#38), Laguna XS.2: 21.1

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 59.3 (#32), Laguna XS.2: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Laguna XS.2
GPQA Diamond91.4%—
Humanity's Last Exam27.8%—
SimpleQA Verified37.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.4%—
LMArena Expert1445—

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 51.3 (#7), Laguna XS.2: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Laguna XS.2
LMArena Vision1268—
VPCT84%—
Furniture Assembly38.3%—
LMArena Document1405—

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 53.4 (#67), Laguna XS.2: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Laguna XS.2
LMArena Non-English1425—
LMArena Chinese1460—
LMArena French1455—
LMArena German1448—
LMArena Japanese1420—
LMArena Korean1392—
LMArena Russian1440—
LMArena Spanish1433—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 74.7 (#89), Laguna XS.2: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Laguna XS.2
LMArena Instruction Following1417—

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 44.0 (#78), Laguna XS.2: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Laguna XS.2
CL-bench18.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1428—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.2: 66.8 (#32), Laguna XS.2: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2Laguna XS.2
LMArena Text1439—
LMArena Creative Writing1401—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1703—
LMArena Multi-Turn1458—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.2 better than Laguna XS.2?

GPT-5.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#34); Laguna XS.2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is GPT-5.2 or Laguna XS.2 better for coding?

GPT-5.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.2 and Laguna XS.2 share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.2 has 67 scored results on Noometry and Laguna XS.2 has 2.

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