GPT-4 Turbo (2024-04-09) vs GPT 5.2 Chat latest

GPT-4 Turbo (2024-04-09) vs GPT 5.2 Chat latest: GPT 5.2 Chat latest is cheaper by 83% on average. GPT-4 Turbo (2024-04-09) from OpenAI (128,000-token context, tool calls) vs. GPT 5.2 Chat latest from OpenAI (128,000-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
0128,000
400
016,384
5,000
01,000,000
OpenAI
$6,392/mo
Input $10.00/M · Output $30.00/M
OpenAI
$1,651/mo
Input $1.75/M · Output $14.00/M
At this workload, GPT 5.2 Chat latest is 74% cheaper than GPT-4 Turbo (2024-04-09) — a savings of $4,741/month ($56,888/year).
Production recipe — Agent Command Center
strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: gpt-5-2-chat-latest
  provider: openai
fallback:
  model: gpt-4-turbo-2024-04-09
  provider: openai
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live
GPT-4 Turbo (2024-04-09) GPT 5.2 Chat latest
Input price $10.00/M $1.75/M
Output price $30.00/M $14.00/M
Context window 128,000 128,000
Max output 4,096 16,384
Function calling
Vision
Audio input
Reasoning
Prompt caching
Structured output
Pricing verified May 12, 2026 May 12, 2026
Cheaper option
~83% cheaper than GPT-4 Turbo (2024-04-09)
Larger context
128,000 tokens
More capabilities
5 of 6 capability flags advertised

Benchmark comparison

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

Chatbot Arena ELOgeneral
GPT-4 Turbo (2024-04-09)
GPT 5.2 Chat latest
1,477
AIME 2025math
GPT-4 Turbo (2024-04-09)
GPT 5.2 Chat latest
100.0%
GPQA Diamondreasoning
GPT-4 Turbo (2024-04-09)
GPT 5.2 Chat latest
92.4%
MMLUgeneral
GPT-4 Turbo (2024-04-09)
GPT 5.2 Chat latest
89.6%
ARC-AGIreasoning
GPT-4 Turbo (2024-04-09)
GPT 5.2 Chat latest
86.2%
SWE-bench Verifiedagent
GPT-4 Turbo (2024-04-09)
GPT 5.2 Chat latest
80.0%
MMMU-Promultimodal
GPT-4 Turbo (2024-04-09)
GPT 5.2 Chat latest
79.5%
ARC-AGI-2reasoning
GPT-4 Turbo (2024-04-09)
GPT 5.2 Chat latest
52.9%
FrontierMathmath
GPT-4 Turbo (2024-04-09)
GPT 5.2 Chat latest
40.3%
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
GPT-4 Turbo (2024-04-09)
GPT 5.2 Chat latest
34.5%