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GPT-5.2-Codex: price, performance and context

Proprietary GPT-5.2-Codex by OpenAI costs $1.75 per 1M input and $14.00 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 400K tokens in one request (≈ 1,200 pages of text) and scores 28.5 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 52 of 212.

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Updated Oct 09, 2026, 16:45 UTC · openai/gpt-5.2-codex

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Key facts

Licence
Proprietary: no public weights, only through a provider API
Input / 1M tokens
$1.75
Output / 1M tokens
$14.00
Context window
400K tokens
Max. output
128K tokens
Performance index
28.5 points · rank 52 of 212
Coding index
n/a
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$5.25 / month
Knowledge cutoff
n/a
In the catalog since
Jan 14, 2026
Capabilities
Reasoning, Vision, Tool Calling

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.0081,300
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.0061,700
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.013780
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.024420
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.20349

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