GPT 5.2 Chat vs GPT 5.4

GPT 5.2 Chat vs GPT 5.4: GPT 5.2 Chat is cheaper by 30% on average. GPT 5.2 Chat from Azure OpenAI (128,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls) vs. GPT 5.4 from Azure OpenAI (1,050,000-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
01,050,000
400
0128,000
5,000
01,000,000
Azure OpenAI
$1,651/mo
Input $1.75/M · Output $14.00/M
Azure OpenAI
$2,055/mo
Input $2.50/M · Output $15.00/M
At this workload, GPT 5.2 Chat is 20% cheaper than GPT 5.4 — a savings of $403/month ($4,840/year).
Production recipe — Agent Command Center
strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: gpt-5-2-chat
  provider: azure-openai
fallback:
  model: gpt-5-4
  provider: azure-openai
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live
GPT 5.2 Chat GPT 5.4
Input price $1.75/M $2.50/M
Output price $14.00/M $15.00/M
Context window 128,000 1,050,000
Max output 16,384 128,000
Function calling
Vision
Audio input
Reasoning
Prompt caching
Structured output
Pricing verified May 12, 2026 May 12, 2026
Cheaper option
~30% cheaper than GPT 5.4
Larger context
1,050,000 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
GPT 5.4
1,477
ARC-AGIreasoning
GPT 5.2 Chat
GPT 5.4
93.7%
GPQA Diamondreasoning
GPT 5.2 Chat
GPT 5.4
92.8%
MMMU-Promultimodal
GPT 5.2 Chat
GPT 5.4
81.2%
ARC-AGI-2reasoning
GPT 5.2 Chat
GPT 5.4
73.3%
SWE-benchagent
GPT 5.2 Chat
GPT 5.4
57.7%
FrontierMathmath
GPT 5.2 Chat
GPT 5.4
47.6%
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
GPT 5.2 Chat
GPT 5.4
39.8%