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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| Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic | 66.7% | 67.0% | 1835elo | 80.8 | 92.0% | 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% | 1281elo | 40.0% | 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% | 959elo | 35.8 | 67.2% | 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% | 1.62 | 1.53 | - | - | - | 80.0% | 77.5% | - | - | - | - | 97.9% | 26.0% | - | - | 65.6% | - | - | - | 49.6% |
2 / 2 models
| Attribute | Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic | gpt-oss-120b OpenAI |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Claude 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. |
| Family | Claude | GPT |
| Params | - | - |
| Open weights | - | open |
| License | - | apache-2.0 |
| Released | 28 May 2026 | 5 Aug 2025 |
| Context | 1,000,000 | 131,072 |
| Input $/1M | $5.00 | $0.15 |
| Output $/1M | $25.00 | $0.60 |
| Cache read $/1M | $0.500 | $0.030 |
| Cache write $/1M | $6.250 | - |
| Speed | 0 tok/s | 186 tok/s |
| Latency | 0.00 s | 0.50 s |
| Modalities | text, image, file | text |
| Providers | - | - |
| Publisher | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Reported scores | GPQA Diamond67.2% (AA) Humanity's Last Exam (HLE)5.9% (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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