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GPT-5.2 Pro vs Qwen-Plus

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

GPT-5.2 Pro wins:

  • Faster response time
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Better at math
  • Supports vision

Qwen-Plus wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
  • Larger context window
Price Advantage
Qwen-Plus
Benchmark Advantage
GPT-5.2 Pro
Context Window
Qwen-Plus
Speed
GPT-5.2 Pro

Pricing Comparison

Price Comparison

MetricGPT-5.2 ProQwen-PlusWinner
Input (per 1M tokens)$21.00$0.40 Qwen-Plus
Output (per 1M tokens)$168.00$1.20 Qwen-Plus
Cache Read (per 1M)N/A$80000.00 Qwen-Plus
Using a 3:1 input/output ratio, Qwen-Plus is 99% cheaper overall.

GPT-5.2 Pro Providers

OpenAI $21.00 (Cheapest)

Qwen-Plus Providers

Alibaba $0.40 (Cheapest)

Benchmark Comparison

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Qwen-Plus Wins

Benchmark Scores

BenchmarkGPT-5.2 ProQwen-PlusWinner
Intelligence Index
Overall intelligence score
51.2--
Coding Index
Code generation & understanding
48.7--
Math Index
Mathematical reasoning
99.0--
MMLU Pro
Academic knowledge
87.4--
GPQA
Graduate-level science
90.3--
LiveCodeBench
Competitive programming
88.9--
GPT-5.2 Pro significantly outperforms in coding benchmarks.

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Context & Performance

Context Window

GPT-5.2 Pro
400,000
tokens
Max output: 128,000 tokens
Qwen-Plus
1,000,000
tokens
Max output: 32,768 tokens
Qwen-Plus has a 60% larger context window.

Speed Performance

MetricGPT-5.2 ProQwen-PlusWinner
Tokens/second98.3 tok/sN/A
Time to First Token46.57sN/A

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureGPT-5.2 ProQwen-Plus
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyGPT-5.2 ProQwen-Plus
LicenseProprietaryOpen Source
AuthorOpenAIQwen
ReleasedDec 2025Feb 2025

GPT-5.2 Pro Modalities

Input
imagetextfile
Output
text

Qwen-Plus Modalities

Input
text
Output
text

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Frequently Asked Questions

Qwen-Plus has cheaper input pricing at $0.40/M tokens. Qwen-Plus has cheaper output pricing at $1.20/M tokens.
GPT-5.2 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 48.7, compared to Qwen-Plus's score of N/A.
GPT-5.2 Pro has a 400,000 token context window, while Qwen-Plus has a 1,000,000 token context window.
GPT-5.2 Pro supports vision. Qwen-Plus does not support vision.