GPT 5.1 (2025-11-13) vs GPT 5.2

GPT 5.1 (2025-11-13) vs GPT 5.2: GPT 5.1 (2025-11-13) is cheaper by 29% on average. GPT 5.1 (2025-11-13) from Azure OpenAI (272,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls) vs. GPT 5.2 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
Azure OpenAI
$1,179/mo
Input $1.25/M · Output $10.00/M
Azure OpenAI
$1,651/mo
Input $1.75/M · Output $14.00/M
At this workload, GPT 5.1 (2025-11-13) is 29% cheaper than GPT 5.2 — a savings of $472/month ($5,661/year).
Production recipe — Agent Command Center
strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: gpt-5-1-2025-11-13
  provider: azure-openai
fallback:
  model: gpt-5-2
  provider: azure-openai
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live
GPT 5.1 (2025-11-13) GPT 5.2
Input price $1.25/M $1.75/M
Output price $10.00/M $14.00/M
Context window 272,000 272,000
Max output 128,000 128,000
Function calling
Vision
Audio input
Reasoning
Prompt caching
Structured output
Pricing verified May 12, 2026 May 12, 2026
Cheaper option
~29% cheaper than GPT 5.2
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
GPT 5.1 (2025-11-13)
GPT 5.2
1,477
AIME 2025math
GPT 5.1 (2025-11-13)
GPT 5.2
100.0%
GPQA Diamondreasoning
GPT 5.1 (2025-11-13)
GPT 5.2
92.4%
MMLUgeneral
GPT 5.1 (2025-11-13)
GPT 5.2
89.6%
ARC-AGIreasoning
GPT 5.1 (2025-11-13)
GPT 5.2
86.2%
SWE-bench Verifiedagent
GPT 5.1 (2025-11-13)
GPT 5.2
80.0%
MMMU-Promultimodal
GPT 5.1 (2025-11-13)
GPT 5.2
79.5%
ARC-AGI-2reasoning
GPT 5.1 (2025-11-13)
GPT 5.2
52.9%
FrontierMathmath
GPT 5.1 (2025-11-13)
GPT 5.2
40.3%
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
GPT 5.1 (2025-11-13)
GPT 5.2
34.5%