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Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs GPT-5.2 Pro

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Claude 3.5 Sonnet wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens

GPT-5.2 Pro wins:

  • Larger context window
  • Faster response time
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Better at math
  • Has reasoning mode
Price Advantage
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Benchmark Advantage
GPT-5.2 Pro
Context Window
GPT-5.2 Pro
Speed
GPT-5.2 Pro

Pricing Comparison

Price Comparison

MetricClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5.2 ProWinner
Input (per 1M tokens)$3.00$10.50 Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Output (per 1M tokens)$15.00$84.00 Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Cache Read (per 1M)$0.60N/A Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Cache Write (per 1M)$7.50N/A Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Using a 3:1 input/output ratio, Claude 3.5 Sonnet is 79% cheaper overall.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Providers

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GPT-5.2 Pro Providers

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Benchmark Comparison

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Claude 3.5 Sonnet Wins
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GPT-5.2 Pro Wins

Benchmark Scores

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5.2 ProWinner
Intelligence Index
Overall intelligence score
15.951.3
Coding Index
Code generation & understanding
30.248.7
Math Index
Mathematical reasoning
-99.0-
MMLU Pro
Academic knowledge
77.287.4
GPQA
Graduate-level science
59.990.3
LiveCodeBench
Competitive programming
38.188.9
Aider
Real-world code editing
84.2--
AIME
Competition math
15.7--
GPT-5.2 Pro significantly outperforms in coding benchmarks.

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Context & Performance

Context Window

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
200,000
tokens
GPT-5.2 Pro
400,000
tokens
GPT-5.2 Pro has a 50% larger context window.

Speed Performance

MetricClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5.2 ProWinner
Tokens/second0.0 tok/s77.2 tok/s
Time to First Token0.00s74.61s
GPT-5.2 Pro responds Infinity% faster on average.

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5.2 Pro
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyClaude 3.5 SonnetGPT-5.2 Pro
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
AuthorAnthropicOpenAI
ReleasedOct 2024Dec 2025

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Modalities

Input
textimagefile
Output
text

GPT-5.2 Pro Modalities

Input
imagetextfile
Output
text

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Frequently Asked Questions

Claude 3.5 Sonnet has cheaper input pricing at $3.00/M tokens. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has cheaper output pricing at $15.00/M tokens.
GPT-5.2 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 48.7, compared to Claude 3.5 Sonnet's score of 30.2.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet has a 200,000 token context window, while GPT-5.2 Pro has a 400,000 token context window.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet supports vision. GPT-5.2 Pro supports vision.