GPT 5.2 Chat latest vs o1-preview

GPT 5.2 Chat latest vs o1-preview: GPT 5.2 Chat latest is cheaper by 88% on average. GPT 5.2 Chat latest from OpenAI (128,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls) vs. o1-preview from Azure 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
032,768
5,000
01,000,000
OpenAI
$1,651/mo
Input $1.75/M · Output $14.00/M
Azure OpenAI
$10,501/mo
Input $15.00/M · Output $60.00/M
At this workload, GPT 5.2 Chat latest is 84% cheaper than o1-preview — a savings of $8,850/month ($106,196/year).
Production recipe — Agent Command Center
strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: gpt-5-2-chat-latest
  provider: openai
fallback:
  model: o1-preview
  provider: azure-openai
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live
GPT 5.2 Chat latest o1-preview
Input price $1.75/M $15.00/M
Output price $14.00/M $60.00/M
Context window 128,000 128,000
Max output 16,384 32,768
Function calling
Vision
Audio input
Reasoning
Prompt caching
Structured output
Pricing verified May 12, 2026 May 12, 2026
Cheaper option
~88% cheaper than o1-preview
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 5.2 Chat latest
1,477
o1-preview
AIME 2025math
GPT 5.2 Chat latest
100.0%
o1-preview
GPQA Diamondreasoning
GPT 5.2 Chat latest
92.4%
o1-preview
MMLUgeneral
GPT 5.2 Chat latest
89.6%
o1-preview
ARC-AGIreasoning
GPT 5.2 Chat latest
86.2%
o1-preview
SWE-bench Verifiedagent
GPT 5.2 Chat latest
80.0%
o1-preview
MMMU-Promultimodal
GPT 5.2 Chat latest
79.5%
o1-preview
ARC-AGI-2reasoning
GPT 5.2 Chat latest
52.9%
o1-preview
FrontierMathmath
GPT 5.2 Chat latest
40.3%
o1-preview
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
GPT 5.2 Chat latest
34.5%
o1-preview