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GPT-5.2 Codex

Released
2025-12-18
Last refreshed
2026-05-22
Status
Researched 46d ago
ProprietaryMultimodalCodingAgentsVisionJSON / Tool use

GPT-5.2 Codex is worth evaluating for coding, agents, and vision when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating coding, agents, and vision
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Workloads where another current model has stronger sourced task evidence
Specifications
Family
GPT-5
Released
2025-12-18
Architecture
Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff
2025-08
Specialization
code
License
Proprietary
Created by

Cutting-edge research and development.

San Francisco, California, United States
Founded 2015
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$14.00
Input / 1M
$1.75

Cheapest of 1 route · Vercel AI Gateway · cache read $0.175

About

GPT-5.2-Codex is OpenAI's agentic coding model built on GPT-5.2, released December 18, 2025. Optimized for long-horizon professional software engineering tasks including large refactors, multi-file changes, and codebase migrations. Features context compaction for handling tasks exceeding a single context window, enhanced vision for interpreting screenshots, diagrams, and UI, and strengthened safeguards for defensive cybersecurity workflows. Available to paid ChatGPT users and via the Responses API.

GPT-5.2 Codex is a proprietary model in the GPT-5 family. The structured metadata tracks multimodal input, reasoning, function calling, tool use, and code execution. This page tracks provider routes through Vercel AI Gateway, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $1.75 input and $14 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for GPT-5.2 Codex yet.

Top use-case fit

Coding

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Agents

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Vision

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MCacheRoute
Vercel AI Gateway$1.75$14.00read $0.175
Serverless

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningFunction CallingTool UseCode Execution

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

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