Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
GPT-5.2 Pro is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 90 to 38. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
GPT-5.2 Pro's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 84.8 against 17.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Pro, 89 to 20.
GPT-5.2 Pro is the reasoning model in the pair, while Nova Pro 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 Pro gives you the larger context window at 400K, compared with 128K for Nova Pro.
Pick GPT-5.2 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Nova Pro only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
GPT-5.2 Pro
85.9
Nova Pro
33.3
GPT-5.2 Pro
84.8
Nova Pro
17.2
GPT-5.2 Pro
96
Nova Pro
41.1
GPT-5.2 Pro
95.2
Nova Pro
46.3
GPT-5.2 Pro
81.5
Nova Pro
34.2
GPT-5.2 Pro
95
Nova Pro
66
GPT-5.2 Pro
93.4
Nova Pro
60.4
GPT-5.2 Pro
98.2
Nova Pro
48.6
GPT-5.2 Pro is ahead overall, 90 to 38. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Pro, where the scores are 89 and 20.
GPT-5.2 Pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.5 versus 34.2. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.2 Pro has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 84.8 versus 17.2. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.2 Pro has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 98.2 versus 48.6. Inside this category, HMMT Feb 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.2 Pro has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 95.2 versus 46.3. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.2 Pro has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 85.9 versus 33.3. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.2 Pro has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 96 versus 41.1. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.2 Pro has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 95 versus 66. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.2 Pro has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 93.4 versus 60.4. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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