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GPT-5.2 (batch)

by OpenAI · openai/gpt-5.2:batch · #314 cheapest of 422 paid models

Prices updated Sep 20, 2026, 12:34 AM UTC · refreshed hourly

GPT-5.2 is the latest frontier-grade model in the GPT-5 series, offering stronger agentic and long context perfomance compared to GPT-5.1. It uses adaptive reasoning to allocate computation dynamically, responding quickly...

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Pricing

Input

$0.875

per 1M tokens

Output

$7.00

per 1M tokens

Blended (3:1)

$2.41

3 input : 1 output

Cache read

$0.087

per 1M cached tokens

Cache write

per 1M tokens

Cache & batch economics

Effective prices for GPT-5.2 (batch) with prompt caching.

Cache hit rateEffective blended $/1MExample request*vs no cache
0%$2.41$0.0963
50%$2.11$0.0569−41%
90%$1.87$0.0254−74%

*Example: 100K sticky context + 2K new input + 1K output. Batch discount is an approximate 50% off list rates for this provider’s batch API. Confirm on the vendor’s pricing page.

What a request costs

WorkloadInput tokensOutput tokensCost / requestCost / 1K requests
Short chat message500300$0.002537$2.54
Document summary8,0001,000$0.014$14.00
Codebase question (RAG)30,0002,000$0.0403$40.25
Long-context analysis150,0005,000$0.1663$166.25

Performance

Intelligence Index

30.4

AA composite quality

Coding Index

Math Index

99

Agentic Index

Output speed

0 tok/s

median

Time to first token

0s

median

Time to first answer

0s

after reasoning tokens

Artificial Analysis benchmarks

BenchmarkScore
MMLU-Pro87.4%
GPQA Diamond90.3%
Humanity's Last Exam37.7%
LiveCodeBench88.9%
AIME 202599.0%
IFBench75.4%
AA-LCR (Long Context Reasoning)82.7%
Terminal-Bench Hard47.0%
τ²-Bench (Telecom)84.8%

Design Arena Elo

CategoryElo
Website1,207
Web apps1,101
Full-stack1,052
Mobile apps1,123
Android native1,073
UI components1,205
Data viz1,216
SVG1,162
3D1,108
Game dev1,219
Godot game dev1,142
Code categories1,185
ASCII art1,171

Specs

Context window

400K

tokens

Max output

128K

tokens

Input modalities

file, image, text

Tokenizer

GPT