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GPT-4o-mini vs gpt-oss-120b

Head to head on 15 shared benchmarks, with price, context window, and release dates.

Benchmark scores

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Model
gpt-oss-120b

OpenAI

41.8%66.7%58.2%959elo67.2%5.9%58.3%51.0%60.2%50.3%48.6%70.7%77.5%36.0%71.6%---38.9%7.6%--13.0%-35.8--57.6--38.8%68.9%39.2%1.621.53--80.0%---97.9%26.0%-5.3%65.6%-----45.0%49.6%
GPT-4o-mini

OpenAI

3.6%14.7%45.5%871elo42.6%4.2%31.0%47.2%43.0%65.8%32.9%23.4%64.8%22.9%60.5%16.7%11.7%50.7%--0.290.0%-0.0%-0.0%1.54-0.0%72.0%-----78.9%62.8%-54.5%78.0%3.81--100.0%--0.360.7883.3%54.5%22.5%-39.6%
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AttributeGPT-4o-mini

OpenAI

gpt-oss-120b

OpenAI

DescriptionGPT-4o Mini is an AI model from OpenAI.GPT-Oss 120b is an AI model from OpenAI, released with open weights.
FamilyGPTGPT
Params--
Open weightsclosedopen
Licenseproprietaryapache-2.0
Released18 Jul 20245 Aug 2025
Context128,000131,072
Input $/1M$0.15$0.15
Output $/1M$0.60$0.60
Cache read $/1M$0.075$0.030
Cache write $/1M--
Speed0 tok/s186 tok/s
Latency0.00 s0.50 s
Modalitiestext, image, filetext
Providers--
PublisherOpenAIOpenAI
Reported scores
GPQA Diamond67.2% (AA)
LiveCodeBench70.7% (AA)
MMLU-Pro77.5% (AA)
SciCode36.0% (AA)

FAQ

Is GPT-4o-mini or gpt-oss-120b better?
Across the 15 benchmarks both models report on Sophon, gpt-oss-120b leads on 14 of them. Which one is "better" depends on the benchmark - the table above shows every shared score.
How do GPT-4o-mini and gpt-oss-120b compare on GPQA Diamond?
GPT-4o-mini scores 42.6% and gpt-oss-120b scores 67.2% on GPQA Diamond.
When were GPT-4o-mini and gpt-oss-120b released?
GPT-4o-mini was released 18 Jul 2024 by OpenAI. gpt-oss-120b was released 5 Aug 2025 by OpenAI.

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