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
#14
Across all subsets · overall
Total arena votes
277,300
Across 39 (subset, category) entries
Providers on OR
2
OpenAI + others
First seen
2026-05-08
61 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | openai | 128K | $1.75 | $14.00 | 100.00% | - | - | ✓ |
| Azure | azure | 128K | $1.75 | $14.00 | - | - | - | ✓ |
Per-category ranks
Text
| Rank | Category | Variant | Trend | Elo | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #7 | Industry Medicine And Healthcare | - | 1502 | 2,457 | |
| #9 | Multi Turn | - | 1495 | 6,500 | |
| #11 | Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations | - | 1484 | 6,671 | |
| #12 | German | - | 1479 | 554 | |
| #14 | Exclude Ties | - | 1486 | 26,214 | |
| #14 | Overall | - | 1476 | 34,518 | |
| #16 | Hard Prompts | - | 1497 | 21,717 | |
| #16 | Industry Software And It Services | - | 1510 | 13,406 | |
| #16 | Polish | - | 1482 | 688 | |
| #17 | Hard Prompts English | - | 1499 | 10,660 | |
| #18 | Industry Legal And Government | - | 1481 | 2,590 | |
| #18 | Non English | - | 1465 | 18,300 | |
| #18 | Spanish | - | 1469 | 1,053 | |
| #19 | English | - | 1480 | 16,218 | |
| #19 | Russian | - | 1478 | 3,781 | |
| #20 | Coding | - | 1516 | 9,166 | |
| #20 | Japanese | - | 1451 | 245 | |
| #23 | French | - | 1488 | 966 | |
| #25 | Industry Life And Physical And Social Science | - | 1487 | 5,471 | |
| #28 | Expert | - | 1493 | 2,877 | |
| #28 | Industry Writing And Literature And Language | - | 1452 | 8,085 | |
| #29 | Instruction Following | - | 1457 | 11,038 | |
| #29 | Korean | - | 1424 | 525 | |
| #32 | Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media | - | 1436 | 6,778 | |
| #33 | Longer Query | - | 1473 | 12,968 | |
| #37 | Chinese | - | 1499 | 1,834 | |
| #41 | Math | - | 1453 | 2,088 | |
| #42 | Creative Writing | - | 1433 | 5,382 | |
| #42 | Industry Mathematical | - | 1457 | 1,851 |
Vision
| Rank | Category | Variant | Trend | Elo | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #11 | English | - | 1281 | 6,540 | |
| #15 | Overall | - | 1279 | 15,606 | |
| #16 | Diagram | - | 1308 | 3,988 | |
| #17 | Ocr | - | 1288 | 10,852 | |
| #18 | Entity Recognition | - | 1215 | 116 | |
| #23 | Homework | - | 1295 | 2,436 | |
| #32 | Humor | - | 1234 | 508 | |
| #38 | Creative Writing | - | 1233 | 900 | |
| #40 | Chinese | - | 1268 | 853 | |
| #43 | Creative Writing Vision | - | 1233 | 900 |