GPT 5.2 Chat latest vs o4-mini (2025-04-16)

Name: o4-mini (2025-04-16)
Brand: Azure OpenAI
Price: 1.100000 USD

GPT 5.2 Chat latest vs o4-mini (2025-04-16): o4-mini (2025-04-16) is cheaper by 69% on average. GPT 5.2 Chat latest from OpenAI (128,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls) vs. o4-mini (2025-04-16) from Azure OpenAI (200,000-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.

Input tokens / request3,000

0200,000

Output tokens / request400

0100,000

Requests / day5,000

01,000,000

GPT 5.2 Chat latest

OpenAI

$1,651/mo

Input $1.75/M · Output $14.00/M

o4-mini (2025-04-16)Cheaper

Azure OpenAI

$770/mo

Input $1.10/M · Output $4.40/M

At this workload, o4-mini (2025-04-16) is 53% cheaper than GPT 5.2 Chat latest — a savings of $881/month ($10,574/year).

Production recipe — Agent Command Center

strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: o4-mini-2025-04-16
  provider: azure-openai
fallback:
  model: gpt-5-2-chat-latest
  provider: openai
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live

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	GPT 5.2 Chat latest OpenAI	o4-mini (2025-04-16) Azure OpenAI
Input price	$1.75/M	$1.10/M
Output price	$14.00/M	$4.40/M
Context window	128,000	200,000
Max output	16,384	100,000
Function calling	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio input	—	—
Reasoning	✓	✓
Prompt caching	✓	✓
Structured output	✓	✓
Pricing verified	May 12, 2026	May 12, 2026