Head-to-head comparison across 1benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
GPT-5.2
79
Ornith-1.0-35B
67
Pick GPT-5.2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ornith-1.0-35B only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
Agentic
+9.0 difference
GPT-5.2
Ornith-1.0-35B
$1.75 / $14
$0 / $0
73 t/s
N/A
130.34s
N/A
400K
262K
Pick GPT-5.2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ornith-1.0-35B only becomes the better choice if agentic is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.
GPT-5.2 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 79 to 67. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
GPT-5.2 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $1.75 input / $14.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Ornith-1.0-35B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. GPT-5.2 gives you the larger context window at 400K, compared with 262K for Ornith-1.0-35B.
GPT-5.2 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 79 to 67.
Ornith-1.0-35B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 64.2 versus 55.2. GPT-5.2 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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