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Claude Opus 4.6 vs gpt-oss-120b

Head to head on 19 shared benchmarks, with price, context window, and release dates.

Benchmark scores

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Model
Claude Opus 4.6

Anthropic

67.0%71.0%1804elo77.784.0%19.1%44.6%78.8%78.2%69.9%63.3%83.3%89.3%88.7%45.7%75.6%76.0%48.5%84.8%--99.7956.1%1.5--2.081223elo40.7%-84.9%8877158---78.5%48.2%86.7%--68.5%9350.0%51.6%44.5-72.0%-80.657.6%66.5%
gpt-oss-120b

OpenAI

58.2%13.0%959elo35.867.2%5.9%58.3%51.0%60.2%38.8%50.3%48.6%68.9%39.2%36.0%26.0%71.6%5.3%45.0%41.8%66.7%---38.9%7.6%---57.6---70.7%1.621.53---80.0%77.5%-----97.9%-65.6%--49.6%
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AttributeClaude Opus 4.6

Anthropic

gpt-oss-120b

OpenAI

DescriptionClaude Opus 4.6 is an AI model from Anthropic.GPT-Oss 120b is an AI model from OpenAI, released with open weights.
FamilyClaudeGPT
Params--
Open weightsclosedopen
Licenseproprietaryapache-2.0
Released5 Feb 20265 Aug 2025
Context1,000,000131,072
Input $/1M$5.00$0.15
Output $/1M$25.00$0.60
Cache read $/1M$0.500$0.030
Cache write $/1M$6.250-
Speed0 tok/s186 tok/s
Latency0.00 s0.50 s
Modalitiestext, image, filetext
Providers--
PublisherAnthropicOpenAI
Reported scores
GPQA Diamond67.2% (AA)
LiveCodeBench70.7% (AA)
MMLU-Pro77.5% (AA)
SciCode36.0% (AA)

FAQ

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or gpt-oss-120b better?
Across the 19 benchmarks both models report on Sophon, Claude Opus 4.6 leads on 18 of them. Which one is "better" depends on the benchmark - the table above shows every shared score.
How do Claude Opus 4.6 and gpt-oss-120b compare on GPQA Diamond?
Claude Opus 4.6 scores 84.0% and gpt-oss-120b scores 67.2% on GPQA Diamond.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.6 or gpt-oss-120b?
gpt-oss-120b is cheaper at $0.60 per million output tokens against $25.00 for Claude Opus 4.6 - about 41.7x.
When were Claude Opus 4.6 and gpt-oss-120b released?
Claude Opus 4.6 was released 5 Feb 2026 by Anthropic. gpt-oss-120b was released 5 Aug 2025 by OpenAI.

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