ChatGPT 5.2 lands with big upgrades for professional work

ChatGPT 5.2 is the new model series OpenAI is rolling out to paid users and developers. The update is aimed at people doing professional work, and promises sharper performance across documents, code, spreadsheets and visual inputs.

According to the company, it is designed to handle longer contexts and more complex, multi-step tasks than earlier models, which is why many teams are already testing it for day-to-day workflows.

ChatGPT 5.2 vs ChatGPT 5.1: What’s improved?

OpenAI says GPT-5.2 Thinking now reaches a new state of the art on GDPval, a benchmark of well-specified knowledge work, outperforming industry professionals in a majority of comparisons and delivering results much faster and at lower cost.

Its coding abilities also leap forward: GPT-5.2 scores higher on SWE-Bench Pro and shows measurable improvements in debugging, refactoring and front-end UI work.

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The model also reduces factual errors versus GPT-5.1, and its vision skills give stronger chart and interface understanding. In addition, GPT-5.2 handles multi-step reasoning with more stability, keeps structure intact across long tasks and presents clearer explanations.

These changes make ChatGPT 5.2 far more dependable for extended workflows that involve synthesis, planning and detailed analysis.

The new model also comes with strengthened safety responses, especially in sensitive conversations such as mental health or emotional distress. It is designed to reduce undesirable outputs and provide more stable, responsible guidance compared to earlier versions.

Performance and pricing

GPT-5.2 is significantly better at calling tools reliably over long, multi-turn sessions, and testers report it coordinates complex workflows with fewer breakdowns. It also shines on long-document reasoning tasks, maintaining coherence across very large inputs.

For API users, pricing is higher: GPT-5.2 Instant is $1.75 per 1M input tokens and $14 per 1M output tokens; at an exchange rate near Rs 90.5 per dollar, that’s roughly Rs 158 per 1M input tokens and Rs 1,267 per 1M output tokens (cached inputs are heavily discounted).

Overall, GPT-5.2 is built to save time on complex professional tasks, from building polished spreadsheets to analysing long reports, but users should still verify critical outputs.

How to try ChatGPT 5.2

It appears that the new update is being rolled out gradually to users. It is expected to reach paid subscribers first over the next few days. Once GPT-5.2 becomes widely available, GPT-5.1 will remain accessible for three months before being phased out, in line with the company’s policy.

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