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
258,500
Across 37 (subset, category) entries
Providers on OR
2
Azure + others
First seen
2026-05-08
45 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 | 99.28% | - | - | ✓ |
Per-category ranks
Text
| Rank | Category | Variant | Trend | Elo | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #9 | Industry Medicine And Healthcare | - | 1502 | 2,460 | |
| #9 | Multi Turn | - | 1495 | 6,501 | |
| #11 | Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations | - | 1484 | 6,687 | |
| #12 | German | - | 1478 | 554 | |
| #13 | Exclude Ties | - | 1486 | 26,245 | |
| #14 | Overall | - | 1475 | 34,555 | |
| #16 | Industry Software And It Services | - | 1509 | 13,429 | |
| #16 | Spanish | - | 1469 | 1,053 | |
| #18 | Hard Prompts | - | 1497 | 21,748 | |
| #18 | Hard Prompts English | - | 1498 | 10,685 | |
| #19 | English | - | 1480 | 16,243 | |
| #19 | Industry Legal And Government | - | 1481 | 2,591 | |
| #20 | Japanese | - | 1451 | 245 | |
| #20 | Russian | - | 1478 | 3,782 | |
| #21 | Coding | - | 1515 | 9,187 | |
| #24 | Industry Life And Physical And Social Science | - | 1487 | 5,466 | |
| #25 | French | - | 1487 | 969 | |
| #26 | Expert | - | 1493 | 2,878 | |
| #26 | Industry Writing And Literature And Language | - | 1452 | 8,087 | |
| #27 | Korean | - | 1425 | 524 | |
| #28 | Instruction Following | - | 1457 | 11,060 | |
| #31 | Longer Query | - | 1473 | 12,996 | |
| #32 | Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media | - | 1436 | 6,790 | |
| #36 | Chinese | - | 1498 | 1,824 | |
| #38 | Math | - | 1453 | 2,084 | |
| #41 | Creative Writing | - | 1433 | 5,391 | |
| #42 | Industry Mathematical | - | 1458 | 1,846 |
Vision
| Rank | Category | Variant | Trend | Elo | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #10 | English | - | 1280 | 6,526 | |
| #14 | Diagram | - | 1308 | 3,980 | |
| #14 | Overall | - | 1279 | 15,582 | |
| #15 | Entity Recognition | - | 1220 | 102 | |
| #16 | Ocr | - | 1288 | 10,832 | |
| #19 | Homework | - | 1294 | 2,439 | |
| #31 | Humor | - | 1233 | 510 | |
| #35 | Creative Writing | - | 1235 | 897 | |
| #38 | Chinese | - | 1268 | 855 | |
| #40 | Creative Writing Vision | - | 1235 | 897 |