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Best GPT-5.2 alternatives

Users may seek alternatives to GPT-5.2 because of its high output price of $14 per million tokens and limitations such as high resource use with maximum context and lack of native audio or video support. This list covers seven other multimodal models with details on their intelligence indices, speeds, prices, contexts, strengths, and limitations compared to the base model.

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Grok 4.3

Multimodal · $2.50/1M

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Multimodal model with 1M-token context for complex text and image tasks.

Intelligence: 43.9Output speed: 135 t/sOutput price: $2.50/1MContext: 1000K
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GPT-5 Codex

Multimodal · $10.00/1M

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OpenAI's multimodal model for large-scale text and image tasks.

Intelligence: 44.6Output speed: 150 t/sOutput price: $10.00/1MContext: 400K

Google's fast multimodal model for efficient text, image, and video tasks.

Intelligence: 33.5Output speed: 310 t/sOutput price: $1.50/1MContext: 1049K

It provides a much larger context of 2000000 tokens and handles text, images, and files at $6 per million tokens with multi-agent coordination, though its intelligence index is unknown and setups may add latency.

Output price: $6.00/1MContext: 2000KType: ProprietaryProvider: xAI
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GPT-5.1-Codex

Multimodal · $10.00/1M

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OpenAI's closed multimodal model for large-scale text and image tasks.

Intelligence: 43.1Output speed: 178 t/sOutput price: $10.00/1MContext: 400K
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GPT Chat Latest

Multimodal · $30.00/1M

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OpenAI's multimodal model for large-scale text, image and file tasks.

Output price: $30.00/1MContext: 400KType: ProprietaryProvider: OpenAI
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GPT-5.2 Pro

Multimodal · $168.00/1M

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Multimodal model handling images, text, and files over vast contexts.

Output price: $168.00/1MContext: 400KType: ProprietaryProvider: OpenAI
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GPT-5.1

Multimodal · $10.00/1M

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OpenAI's multimodal model for large-scale image, text, and file processing.

Intelligence: 27.4Output speed: 116 t/sOutput price: $10.00/1MContext: 400K

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Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the closest match with an intelligence index of 46.4, output speed of 188.42 t/s, price of $3 per million tokens, and context of 1048576.