GPT-5.2

It's actually more expensive than GPT-5.1. I've gotten used to prices going down with each latest model, but this time it's gone up.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/pricing

It also seems much more "smarter" though

Gemini 3 Pro Preview also got more expensive than 2.5 Pro.

2.5 Pro: $1.25 input, $10 output (million tokens)

3 Pro Preview: $2 input, $12 output (million tokens)

Previous model's prices usually go down, but their flagship has always been the most expensive one.

Reading this comment, it just occurred to me that we're still in the first phase of the enshittification process.

Flagship models have rarely being cheaper, and especially not on release day. Only a few cases of this really.

Notable exceptions are Deepseek 3.2 and Opus 4.5 and GPT 3.5 Turbo.

The price drops usually are the form of flash and mini models being really cheap and fast. Like when we got o4 mini or 2.0 flash which was a particularly significant one.

Wtf, why would this be downvoted?

I'm adding context and what I stated is provably true.

That's not true.

    > Notable exceptions are Deepseek 3.2 and Opus 4.5 and GPT 3.5 Turbo.

And GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, and GPT-5. Almost every OpenAI release got cheaper on a per-input-token basis.

Literally no difference in productivity from a free/ <0.50c output OpenRouter model. All these > $1.00+ per mm output are literal scams. No added value to the world.

Getting more expensive has been the trend for the closed weights frontier models. See Gemini 3 Pro vs 2.5 Pro. Also see Gemini 2.5 Flash vs 2.0 Flash. The only thing that got cheaper recently was Opus 4.5 vs Opus 4.

5.1 Pro is great

I struggle to see where Pro is better than 5.x with Thinking. Actually prefer the latter.