OpenAI: GPT-5.2-Codex

OpenAI: GPT-5.2-Codex

openai · Released Jan 14, 2026 Professional
Intelligence #15 / 557
82.5 Our Score
Speed #109 / 259
101.6 tokens / sec
Input #465 / 560
$1.75 per 1M tokens
Output #508 / 560
$14.00 per 1M tokens
Context #77 / 560
400,000 tokens

Analysis Summary

OpenAI: GPT-5.2-Codex sits in the Professional tier on our leaderboard, ranked #15 of 557 published models on overall intelligence. At $1.75 input and $14.00 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a generous context window for extended reasoning and code review and supports tool use, function calling, vision, and reasoning.

Editorial notes

GPT-5.2-Codex from OpenAI delivers near-frontier reasoning, strong agentic and coding performance, vision support, a 400K context window, and excellent instruction following for complex business workflows.

Assessed May 14, 2026

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Performance Profile

Intelligence8.6Technical7.9Value6.5Content8.5
Intelligence 8.6/10
Technical 7.9/10
Content 8.5/10
Value 6.5/10

GPT-5.2-Codex is an upgraded version of GPT-5.1-Codex optimized for software engineering and coding workflows. It is designed for both interactive development sessions and long, independent execution of complex engineering tasks..

Capabilities

Tool Use Function Calling Vision

Performance Indices

Source: Artificial Analysis

49 Intelligence Index
43 Coding Index
64.6 Agentic Index

Benchmark Scores

Intelligence

GPQA Diamond 89.9% Graduate-level scientific reasoning
HLE 33.5% Humanity's Last Exam
SciCode 54.6% Scientific computing

Technical

TerminalBench Hard 37.1% Agentic terminal tasks
τ²-Bench 92.1% Conversational agent benchmark

Content

IFBench 77.6% Instruction following
LCR 75.7% Long-context reasoning

Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face

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Model Information

OpenRouter ID openai/gpt-5.2-codex
Provideropenai
Release Date January 14, 2026
Context Length400,000 tokens
Max Completion128,000 tokens
Status Active

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $1.75 $0.001750
Output $14.00 $0.014000

Live Performance

Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.

2,235ms
Best Latency (TTFT)
74.5 tok/s
Best Throughput
0/2
Active Endpoints
Available via: Azure, OpenAI

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