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GPT-5.2 Reasoning on SWE-bench Verified: score, rank and what it means

GPT-5.2 Reasoning scores 78.2 on SWE-bench Verified, placing it #15 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.

Score
78.2
0–100 scale
Rank
#15
of 600
Percentile
98th
within the index
Benchmark avg
57.5
all models
Leader
81.7
GPT-5.2 Pro
Gap to leader
3.5
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on SWE-bench Verified, with GPT-5.2 Reasoning highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

GPT-5.2 Pro 81.7
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 81.1
GPT-5.2 Max 80.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max 80.2
GPT-5.2 80.2
GPT-5.1 Pro 80.1
o4 Max 79.8
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning 79.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 79.5
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 79.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
2 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
3 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
4 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $19.90 87.2
5 GPT-5.2 OpenAI 2000000 $19.71 88.0
6 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
7 o4 Max OpenAI 2000000 $19.51 86.2
8 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 400000 $19.48 87.7
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
10 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2

What this score means

On SWE-bench Verified, GPT-5.2 Reasoning sits at #15 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Pro, scores 81.7, so the gap to the top is 3.5 points. The median model in this index scores 61.0, which puts GPT-5.2 Reasoning above the midpoint.

OpenAI models average 72.7 on this benchmark. GPT-5.2 Reasoning is 5.5 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average OpenAI model.

Among frontier models, the average is 75.6. GPT-5.2 Reasoning is 2.6 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 78.2 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.

Price context

At $20.98 per million input tokens, GPT-5.2 Reasoning is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on SWE-bench Verified. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
GPT-5.2 Vision OpenAI 1000000 $19.03 87.4
Gemini 3 Pro Google DeepMind 2000000 $18.24 86.1
o4 Pro OpenAI 1000000 $19.37 87.3
o4 Turbo OpenAI 2000000 $19.34 86.6
GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
Grok 4 Reasoning xAI 2000000 $19.67 87.8
Grok 4 xAI 200000 $17.90 86.5

Other benchmarks for GPT-5.2 Reasoning

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 87.0 34 94th
GPQA Diamond 87.0 1 100th
HumanEval 92.4 17 97th
MATH-500 91.4 34 94th
AIME 2025 84.9 41 93th
LiveCodeBench 84.6 8 99th
IFEval 95.0 5 99th
TruthfulQA 88.2 19 97th
HellaSwag 92.5 32 95th
MMMU 81.5 39 94th
Arena Elo 1500.4 2 100th

FAQ

What score does GPT-5.2 Reasoning get on SWE-bench Verified?

GPT-5.2 Reasoning scores 78.2 on SWE-bench Verified in this index. The benchmark average is 57.5 and the top score is 81.7.

How does GPT-5.2 Reasoning rank on SWE-bench Verified?

It ranks #15 of 600 models, in the 98th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Pro at 81.7.

Is GPT-5.2 Reasoning good at SWE-bench Verified?

Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the SWE-bench Verified score calculated?

SWE-bench Verified is a coding benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.

What does GPT-5.2 Reasoning cost?

GPT-5.2 Reasoning costs $20.98 per million input tokens and $102.78 per million output tokens.

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