Claude Opus 4.5 vs GPT 5.2 (2025-12-11)

Claude Opus 4.5 vs GPT 5.2 (2025-12-11): GPT 5.2 (2025-12-11) is cheaper by 48%. Claude Opus 4.5 from Anthropic (200,000-token context) vs. GPT 5.2 (2025-12-11) from OpenAI (272,000-token context). Use Agent Command Center to A/B both in shadow mode and pick the winner per workload.

Side-by-side cost

Live workload comparison

Same workload run through both models. The cheaper one is highlighted.

3,000
0272,000
400
0128,000
5,000
01,000,000
Anthropic
$3,805/mo
Input $5.00/M · Output $25.00/M
OpenAI
$1,651/mo
Input $1.75/M · Output $14.00/M
At this workload, GPT 5.2 (2025-12-11) is 57% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.5 — a savings of $2,153/month ($25,841/year).
Production recipe — Agent Command Center
strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: gpt-5-2-2025-12-11
  provider: openai
fallback:
  model: claude-opus-4-5
  provider: anthropic
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live
Claude Opus 4.5 GPT 5.2 (2025-12-11)
Input price $5.00/M $1.75/M
Output price $25.00/M $14.00/M
Context window 200,000 272,000
Max output 64,000 128,000
Function calling
Vision
Audio input
Reasoning
Prompt caching
Structured output
Pricing verified May 16, 2026 May 16, 2026
Cheaper option
~48% cheaper than the priciest in this pair
Larger context
272,000 tokens
More capabilities
5 of 6 capability flags advertised

Benchmark comparison

Side-by-side public benchmark scores. Greener bar = winner.

Chatbot Arena ELOgeneral
Claude Opus 4.5
1,472
GPT 5.2 (2025-12-11)
1,477
Aider Polyglotcode
Claude Opus 4.5
89.4%
GPT 5.2 (2025-12-11)
τ-bench (retail)agent
Claude Opus 4.5
88.9%
GPT 5.2 (2025-12-11)
AIME 2025math
Claude Opus 4.5
87.0%
GPT 5.2 (2025-12-11)
GPQA Diamondreasoning
Claude Opus 4.5
87.0%
GPT 5.2 (2025-12-11)
SWE-bench Verifiedagent
Claude Opus 4.5
80.9%
GPT 5.2 (2025-12-11)
MMMUmultimodal
Claude Opus 4.5
80.7%
GPT 5.2 (2025-12-11)
ARC-AGI-2reasoning
Claude Opus 4.5
37.6%
GPT 5.2 (2025-12-11)