OpenAI: GPT-5.2 Chat
Released Dec 10, 2025Try it on:
GPT-5.2 Chat (AKA Instant) is the fast, lightweight member of the 5.2 family, optimized for low-latency chat while retaining strong general intelligence. It uses adaptive reasoning to selectively “think” on...
Best overall rank
#8
Across all subsets · overall
Total arena votes
232,042
Across 37 (subset, category) entries
Providers on OR
2
Azure + others
First seen
2026-05-08
26 days tracked
Trend
Pricing
Per token
- Input (per 1M)
- $1.75
- Output (per 1M)
- $14.00
- Cache Read (per 1M)
- $0.175
Per unit
- Web search
- $0.010/call
Capabilities
Modality
text+image+file->textContext
128K tokens
Tokenizer
GPT
Max output
16K tokens
Moderation
Moderated
Deprecates
2026-08-10
Supported parameters
max_completion_tokens
max_tokens
response_format
seed
structured_outputs
tool_choice
tools
Providers
| Provider | Region / Tag | Context | Input/M | Output/M | Uptime 1d | Latency | Quant | Cache |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Azure | azure | 128K | $1.75 | $14.00 | 100.00% | - | - | ✓ |
| OpenAI | openai | 128K | $1.75 | $14.00 | 94.48% | - | - | ✓ |
Per-category ranks
Text
| Rank | Category | Variant | Trend | Elo | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #6 | Multi Turn | - | 1496 | 6,006 | |
| #7 | Industry Medicine And Healthcare | - | 1505 | 2,292 | |
| #8 | Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations | - | 1485 | 6,158 | |
| #8 | Spanish | - | 1474 | 954 | |
| #11 | Exclude Ties | - | 1487 | 23,945 | |
| #11 | Japanese | - | 1460 | 225 | |
| #12 | German | - | 1478 | 539 | |
| #12 | Overall | - | 1476 | 32,280 | |
| #13 | Industry Software And It Services | - | 1509 | 12,286 | |
| #14 | English | - | 1480 | 15,065 | |
| #14 | Hard Prompts | - | 1497 | 19,903 | |
| #15 | Hard Prompts English | - | 1498 | 9,693 | |
| #15 | Industry Legal And Government | - | 1480 | 2,400 | |
| #15 | Russian | - | 1479 | 3,521 | |
| #17 | Coding | - | 1518 | 8,304 | |
| #18 | Industry Life And Physical And Social Science | - | 1487 | 5,084 | |
| #23 | Expert | - | 1494 | 2,657 | |
| #24 | French | - | 1487 | 850 | |
| #24 | Korean | - | 1427 | 483 | |
| #25 | Industry Writing And Literature And Language | - | 1451 | 7,518 | |
| #25 | Instruction Following | - | 1456 | 10,042 | |
| #27 | Longer Query | - | 1472 | 11,474 | |
| #28 | Chinese | - | 1506 | 1,649 | |
| #28 | Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media | - | 1436 | 6,192 | |
| #31 | Math | - | 1457 | 1,985 | |
| #38 | Creative Writing | - | 1432 | 5,046 | |
| #41 | Industry Mathematical | - | 1458 | 1,709 |
Vision
| Rank | Category | Variant | Trend | Elo | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #7 | Diagram | - | 1312 | 3,079 | |
| #7 | English | - | 1279 | 5,104 | |
| #8 | Overall | - | 1280 | 12,478 | |
| #11 | Ocr | - | 1289 | 8,488 | |
| #17 | Entity Recognition | - | 1204 | 84 | |
| #18 | Homework | - | 1294 | 2,004 | |
| #27 | Humor | - | 1241 | 387 | |
| #28 | Creative Writing | - | 1242 | 761 | |
| #30 | Chinese | - | 1279 | 636 | |
| #35 | Creative Writing Vision | - | 1240 | 761 |