GPT-5.2 vs Claude 4.5 Sonnet

1. Advanced Reasoning for Diverse Domains

• Built to tackle coding and agentic workflows across multiple industries, with configurable reasoning support.

2. Multi-Modal & Long-Form Capabilities

• Handles both text and image inputs, producing text output.
• Allows up to 128 k output tokens for lengthy responses.

3. Large Context & Updated Knowledge

• 400 k token context window accommodates extensive codebases or documents.
• Knowledge cut-off of Aug 31 2025 keeps it current with recent developments.

1. Best-in-class coding performance

• #1 on SWE-bench Verified (77.2% standard, 82.0% high-compute).
• Excels at debugging, architecture, and multi-file code generation.
• Maintains coherence for extremely long tasks (30+ hours).

2. State-of-the-art computer use & agents

• Leads OSWorld at 61.4%.
• Strongest model for agentic workflows, multi-step tool use, and real computer control.
• Powering Claude Code, the new Claude Agent SDK, and Chrome agent actions.

3. Advanced reasoning & math

• Large improvements across reasoning-heavy benchmarks (AIME, MMMLU, τ2-bench, Terminal-Bench).
• Deep multi-step reasoning with extended or interleaved thinking.

4. High alignment & safety

• Most aligned Claude model to date with reduced deception, hallucinations, sycophancy, and harmful compliance.
• Strong protections against prompt injection for agentic tasks (ASL-3 safeguards).

5. Domain-expert performance

• Notable gains in finance, law, medicine, and STEM tasks.
• Trusted by early customers for long-context legal analysis, multi-file engineering, security research, and red-teaming.