Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
GPT-5.2 Instant is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 85 to 35. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
GPT-5.2 Instant's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 75.5 against 13.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 74 to 10.
GPT-5.2 Instant is the reasoning model in the pair, while MiniMax M1 80k is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. GPT-5.2 Instant gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 80K for MiniMax M1 80k.
Pick GPT-5.2 Instant if you want the stronger benchmark profile. MiniMax M1 80k only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
GPT-5.2 Instant
79.6
MiniMax M1 80k
32.1
GPT-5.2 Instant
75.5
MiniMax M1 80k
13.8
GPT-5.2 Instant
93.1
MiniMax M1 80k
39
GPT-5.2 Instant
90.9
MiniMax M1 80k
41.7
GPT-5.2 Instant
79.8
MiniMax M1 80k
31.3
GPT-5.2 Instant
95
MiniMax M1 80k
68
GPT-5.2 Instant
94.4
MiniMax M1 80k
59.1
GPT-5.2 Instant
97.2
MiniMax M1 80k
44.9
GPT-5.2 Instant is ahead overall, 85 to 35. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 74 and 10.
GPT-5.2 Instant has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.8 versus 31.3. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.2 Instant has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 75.5 versus 13.8. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.2 Instant has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 97.2 versus 44.9. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.2 Instant has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 90.9 versus 41.7. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.2 Instant has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 79.6 versus 32.1. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.2 Instant has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 93.1 versus 39. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.2 Instant has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 95 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.2 Instant has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 94.4 versus 59.1. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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