Claude Opus 4.7 vs GPT 5.2 (2025-12-11)
Claude Opus 4.7 vs GPT 5.2 (2025-12-11): GPT 5.2 (2025-12-11) is cheaper by 65% on average. Claude Opus 4.7 from Azure AI Foundry (200,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls) vs. GPT 5.2 (2025-12-11) from Azure OpenAI (272,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls). 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
At this workload, GPT 5.2 (2025-12-11) is 57% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7 — 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: azure-openai
fallback:
model: claude-opus-4-7
provider: azure-ai-foundry
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 } # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live| Claude Opus 4.7 | 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 | 128,000 | 128,000 |
| Function calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio input | — | — |
| Reasoning | ✓ | ✓ |
| Prompt caching | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pricing verified | May 12, 2026 | May 12, 2026 |
Benchmark comparison
Side-by-side public benchmark scores. Greener bar = winner.
Chatbot Arena ELOgeneral
Claude Opus 4.7
1,491
GPT 5.2 (2025-12-11)
1,477