GPT-5.2 vs SAM 3
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GPT-5.2 vs SAM 3 Comparison Table
Evals updated August 6, 2026Pricing updated August 7, 2026
| Property | GPT-5.2 | SAM 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | OpenAI | Meta |
| Category | closed | open |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Dec 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| Context Window | 400K | — |
| Parameters | ||
| License | Proprietary | Custom |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $1.75 | |
| Output $/1M | $14.00 | |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Object Detection | Demo | Demo |
| Captioning | Demo | |
| Chart Question Answering | ||
| Classification | Demo | |
| Document Question Answering | ||
| Image Tagging | ||
| Instance Segmentation | ||
| Multi-Label Classification | ||
| OCR | Demo | |
| Open Vocabulary Object Detection | ||
| Promptable Concept Segmentation | Demo | |
| Video Object Tracking | ||
| Vision Language | ||
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | |
| Zero Shot Segmentation | ||
| Model Features | ||
| Foundation Vision | ||
| Multimodal Vision | ||
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | ||
| Zero-shot Detection | ||
GPT-5.2 vs SAM 3: Overview
GPT-5.2 is OpenAI’s latest flagship large language model, released in December 2025. It is a proprietary, multimodal system supporting text and vision inputs, along with tool use, and features a 400,000-token context window designed for working with long documents, extended conversations, and complex workflows.
Relative to GPT-5.1, GPT-5.2 is positioned by OpenAI as offering improved long-context reasoning, more capable tool use, and stronger performance on professional tasks such as writing, coding, spreadsheet work, and image interpretation. The model is available in multiple variants (including Instant, Thinking, and Pro) that balance speed, cost, and depth of reasoning, making GPT-5.2 a general-purpose model aimed at reliability and workflow robustness rather than minimal latency or lowest cost.
Released on November 19th, 2025, Segment Anything 3 (SAM 3) is a zero-shot image segmentation model that “detects, segments, and tracks objects in images and videos based on concept prompts.” This model was developed by Meta as the third model in the Segment Anything series.
Unlike its previous SAM models (Segment Anything and Segment Anything 2), you can provide SAM 3 with the prompt “shipping container” and it will generate precise segmentation masks for all shipping containers in an image. SAM 3 generates segmentation masks that correspond to the location of the objects found with a text prompt.
Frequently Asked Questions
GPT-5.2 is released under Proprietary, while SAM 3 uses Custom. Licensing often matters more than raw accuracy for commercial deployments, so check the terms against how you plan to ship.
Yes. The comparison demo on this page runs both models on the same image side by side for object detection in the free Roboflow Playground. You can try it instantly, and a free account unlocks unlimited runs.
