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title: "OpenAI: GPT-5.2 Chat — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai"
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description: "OpenAI: GPT-5.2 Chat: $1.75/M in, $14.00/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper."
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# OpenAI: GPT-5.2 Chat — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> OpenAI: GPT-5.2 Chat: $1.75/M in, $14.00/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# GPT-5.2 Chat

OpenAI · released 2025-12-10

 $4.81 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## No independent quality score.

No benchmark we track has measured this model. That is not the same as measuring it and finding it wanting — we simply cannot rank it, so we do not.

### Every price dimension

| Input | $1.75 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $14.00 /M |
| Cached input | $0.175 /M |
| Web search | $0.01 /call |

### Independent scores

No independent benchmark has measured this model.

### Capability

| Context window | 128K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 32K |
| Input modes | file, image, text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | no |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | unrated |

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...