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GPT-5.2 Pro vs Qwen3 8B

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

GPT-5.2 Pro wins:

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

Qwen3 8B wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
Price Advantage
Qwen3 8B
Benchmark Advantage
GPT-5.2 Pro
Context Window
GPT-5.2 Pro
Speed
GPT-5.2 Pro

Pricing Comparison

Price Comparison

MetricGPT-5.2 ProQwen3 8BWinner
Input (per 1M tokens)$21.00$0.05 Qwen3 8B
Output (per 1M tokens)$168.00$0.40 Qwen3 8B
Cache Read (per 1M)N/A$50000.00 Qwen3 8B
Using a 3:1 input/output ratio, Qwen3 8B is 100% cheaper overall.

GPT-5.2 Pro Providers

OpenAI $21.00 (Cheapest)

Qwen3 8B Providers

AtlasCloud $0.05 (Cheapest)
Alibaba $0.12

Benchmark Comparison

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GPT-5.2 Pro Wins
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Qwen3 8B Wins

Benchmark Scores

BenchmarkGPT-5.2 ProQwen3 8BWinner
Intelligence Index
Overall intelligence score
51.210.6
Coding Index
Code generation & understanding
48.77.1
Math Index
Mathematical reasoning
99.024.3
MMLU Pro
Academic knowledge
87.464.3
GPQA
Graduate-level science
90.345.2
LiveCodeBench
Competitive programming
88.920.2
AIME
Competition math
-24.3-
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
Qwen3 8B
32,000
tokens
Max output: 8,192 tokens
GPT-5.2 Pro has a 92% larger context window.

Speed Performance

MetricGPT-5.2 ProQwen3 8BWinner
Tokens/second98.3 tok/s79.6 tok/s
Time to First Token46.57s1.04s
GPT-5.2 Pro responds 24% faster on average.

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureGPT-5.2 ProQwen3 8B
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyGPT-5.2 ProQwen3 8B
LicenseProprietaryOpen Source
AuthorOpenAIQwen
ReleasedDec 2025Apr 2025

GPT-5.2 Pro Modalities

Input
imagetextfile
Output
text

Qwen3 8B Modalities

Input
text
Output
text

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Frequently Asked Questions

Qwen3 8B has cheaper input pricing at $0.05/M tokens. Qwen3 8B has cheaper output pricing at $0.40/M tokens.
GPT-5.2 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 48.7, compared to Qwen3 8B's score of 7.1.
GPT-5.2 Pro has a 400,000 token context window, while Qwen3 8B has a 32,000 token context window.
GPT-5.2 Pro supports vision. Qwen3 8B does not support vision.