Head-to-head comparison across 1benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
GPT-5.2
81
Holo3-35B-A3B
75
Pick GPT-5.2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Holo3-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Agentic
+27.4 difference
GPT-5.2
Holo3-35B-A3B
$1.75 / $14
$null / $null
73 t/s
N/A
130.34s
N/A
400K
64K
Pick GPT-5.2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Holo3-35B-A3B only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
GPT-5.2 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 81 to 75. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
GPT-5.2 is the reasoning model in the pair, while Holo3-35B-A3B 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 gives you the larger context window at 400K, compared with 64K for Holo3-35B-A3B.
GPT-5.2 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 81 to 75. The biggest single separator in this matchup is OSWorld-Verified, where the scores are 47.3% and 82.6%.
Holo3-35B-A3B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.6 versus 55.2. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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