Elephant Alpha vs GPT-5.2
Compare Elephant Alpha by OpenRouter against GPT-5.2 by OpenAI, context windows of 262K vs 400K, tested across 52 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
GPT-5.2
Elephant AlphaRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, GPT-5.2 has the edge — bigger model tier, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Elephant Alpha
Input
$0.000
Output
$0.000
GPT-5.2
Input
$1.75
Output
$14.00
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
31%
GPT-5.2 uses 5.8x more emoji
Elephant Alpha
GPT-5.2
54%Vocabulary64%
17wSentence Length16w
0.38Hedging0.34
4.9Bold9.4
4.7Lists3.9
0.00Emoji0.06
0.60Headings0.89
0.03Transitions0.31
Based on 27 + 15 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
FAQ
