Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT 5.2

Name: GPT 5.2
Brand: OpenAI
Price: 1.750000 USD

Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT 5.2: GPT 5.2 is cheaper by 13%. Claude Sonnet 4.6 from Anthropic (1,000,000-token context) vs. GPT 5.2 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.

Input tokens / request3,000

01,000,000

Output tokens / request400

0128,000

Requests / day5,000

01,000,000

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Anthropic

$2,283/mo

Input $3.00/M · Output $15.00/M

GPT 5.2Cheaper

OpenAI

$1,651/mo

Input $1.75/M · Output $14.00/M

At this workload, GPT 5.2 is 28% cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4.6 — a savings of $632/month ($7,579/year).

Production recipe — Agent Command Center

strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: gpt-5-2
  provider: openai
fallback:
  model: claude-sonnet-4-6
  provider: anthropic
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live

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	Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic	GPT 5.2 OpenAI
Input price	$3.00/M	$1.75/M
Output price	$15.00/M	$14.00/M
Context window	1,000,000	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