GPT-5.2 vs Kimi K3: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
GPT-5.2 is developed by OpenAI, while Kimi K3 comes from Moonshot AI. GPT-5.2 was released in December 2025, and Kimi K3 followed 7 months later in July 2026. Kimi K3 has a published size of about 2.8 trillion parameters; OpenAI has not disclosed the parameter count of GPT-5.2.
We have 4 benchmark results for GPT-5.2 and 3 benchmark results for Kimi K3, but they overlap on a single test: GPQA, where Kimi K3 scores 94.0% against 92.0%.
GPT-5.2 is the cheaper API at $1.50 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, roughly 2 times cheaper than Kimi K3 at $3 and $15. Kimi K3 takes the larger context window at 1M tokens, compared with 256K for GPT-5.2. GPT-5.2 accepts text, images, audio, and video as input, while Kimi K3 accepts text and images.
| Characteristic | GPT-5.2 | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Company | OpenAI | Moonshot AI |
| Release Date | December 10, 2025 | July 16, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | 2.8T |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 256K | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | 128K | 1.0M |
| Input Price / 1M | $1.50 | $3.00 |
| Output Price / 1M | $6.00 | $15.00 |
| Average Score | 97.5% | 95.7% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| GPQA | 92.0% | 94.0% |
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Verdict
Kimi K3 leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: GPT-5.2 — 1.0, Kimi K3 — 1.0.
GPT-5.2 is 2.4x cheaper: input $1.50/1M vs $3.00/1M tokens.
Kimi K3 supports a larger context: 1M vs 256K tokens.
Kimi K3 is newer: released 7/16/2026 vs 12/10/2025.
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