1. Best Intelligence at Scale

• OpenAI positions GPT-5.4 as its frontier model for agentic, coding, and professional workflows.
• Built for complex professional work where stronger reasoning and higher answer quality matter.

2. Configurable Reasoning + Multimodal Input

• Supports configurable reasoning effort from none to xhigh, letting teams balance speed and depth.
• Accepts both text and image inputs while producing text output.

3. Massive Context for Long-Running Work

• 1.05M token context window supports very large codebases, documents, and multi-step workflows.
• Allows up to 128 k output tokens for long-form answers and larger generations.

4. Updated Knowledge & Broad Tool Support

• Knowledge cut-off of Aug 31 2025 keeps it current for newer frameworks and business context.
• Supports tools like web search, file search, code interpreter, hosted shell, computer use, and MCP in the Responses API.

1. Optimized for Long-Horizon Coding Tasks

• OpenAI describes GPT-5.2 Codex as a highly intelligent coding model built for long-horizon, agentic coding work.
• Well suited to planning, refactoring, debugging, and multi-step implementation flows inside real codebases.

2. Adjustable Reasoning for Coding Work

• Supports configurable reasoning effort from low to xhigh depending on speed and quality needs.
• Accepts both text and image inputs while producing text output.

3. Large Context + Long Output

• 400 k token context window supports broad repository understanding and larger working sets.
• Allows up to 128 k output tokens for longer patches, code generation, and technical explanations.

4. Up-to-Date Model Snapshot

• Knowledge cut-off of Aug 31 2025 keeps it current with newer tools and frameworks.
• Supports streaming, function calling, and structured outputs for tool-driven coding workflows.