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Claude Opus 4.8 vs gpt-oss-120b

Head to head on 18 shared benchmarks, with price, context window, and release dates.

Benchmark scores

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Model
Claude Opus 4.8

Anthropic

66.7%67.0%1835elo80.892.0%48.7%62.2%80.1%79.3%78.3%67.4%81.4%84.3%89.7%53.5%75.6%58.3%94.4%--15.5%--80.4%14.5%1281elo40.0%53.9%13.4%47.2%22.5%1890elo-56.9%10.4%---91.8%53.2%85.8%--69.9%83.4%69.0%54.8%--69.2%82.7%-60.9%70.9%82.7%63.4%
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%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%26.0%--65.6%---49.6%
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AttributeClaude Opus 4.8

Anthropic

gpt-oss-120b

OpenAI

DescriptionClaude Opus 4.8 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) is an AI model from Anthropic.GPT-Oss 120b is an AI model from OpenAI, released with open weights.
FamilyClaudeGPT
Params--
Open weights-open
License-apache-2.0
Released28 May 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 4.8 or gpt-oss-120b better?
Across the 18 benchmarks both models report on Sophon, Claude Opus 4.8 leads on 18 of them. Which one is "better" depends on the benchmark - the table above shows every shared score.
How do Claude Opus 4.8 and gpt-oss-120b compare on GPQA Diamond?
Claude Opus 4.8 scores 92.0% and gpt-oss-120b scores 67.2% on GPQA Diamond.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.8 or gpt-oss-120b?
gpt-oss-120b is cheaper at $0.60 per million output tokens against $25.00 for Claude Opus 4.8 - about 41.7x.
When were Claude Opus 4.8 and gpt-oss-120b released?
Claude Opus 4.8 was released 28 May 2026 by Anthropic. gpt-oss-120b was released 5 Aug 2025 by OpenAI.

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