[A_D_E_P_T]

The way I see it, this was the case until a few months ago. Today, Opus 4.5 is just as good or better than 5.2 Pro at tackling hard questions and coding, Gemini beats the free models, and Kimi K2/K2.5 is the better writer/editor.

[nsingh2]

In my own testing these models sill have a different flavor to them

- Opus 4.5 for software development. Works faster, and tends to write cleaner code.

- GPT 5.2 xHigh for mathematical analysis, and analysis in general (e.g. code review, planning, double checks), it's very meticulous.

- Gemini 3.0 Pro for image understanding, though this one I haven't played around with much.