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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.

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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

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

Multi-agent multimodal model for massive context tasks

Output price: $6.00/1MContext: 2000KType: ProprietaryProvider: xAI

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

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

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.

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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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.

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

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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.