Best GPT-5.2-Codex alternatives
Users may seek alternatives to GPT-5.2-Codex because of its high output price of $14 /1M and limitations such as no native support for audio or video. This list covers seven multimodal models with details on intelligence, speed, pricing, and context windows.
Multimodal model with 1M-token context for complex text and image tasks.
OpenAI's multimodal model for large-scale text and image tasks.
Google's fast multimodal model for efficient text, image, and video tasks.
Multi-agent multimodal model for massive context tasks
OpenAI's closed multimodal model for large-scale text and image tasks.
It matches the 400000 context but has a higher price of $30 /1M with unknown intelligence_index and speed, offering similar text-image-file handling.
Multimodal model handling images, text, and files over vast contexts.
It has a lower intelligence_index of 27.4 and output price of $10 /1M versus 49 and $14 /1M but shares the same 400000 context window and multimodal text-image support.
Frequently asked questions
GPT-5.4 Mini is the best alternative based on its intelligence_index of 48.9 closest to 49 along with higher output speed and lower price.