Model comparison

gpt-oss-20b vs o1-pro

gpt-oss-20b and o1-pro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.1 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

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gpt-oss-20b OpenAI

32.1

Rank #249 Confirmed

o1-pro OpenAI

31.2

Rank #264 Reported

Summary

  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where gpt-oss-20b leads 34.6 to 29.3.
  • gpt-oss-20b is cheaper at $0.018 / $0.09 per million input/output tokens, against $150 / $600 for o1-pro.
  • o1-pro accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 131K.
  • gpt-oss-20b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

gpt-oss-20b and o1-pro specifications
gpt-oss-20bo1-pro
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index32.131.2
Released2025-08-052025-03-19
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window131K200K
Max output16K100K
Input $ / M tokens$0.018$150
Output $ / M tokens$0.09$600
Results tracked343

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

gpt-oss-20b: 37.1 (#185), o1-pro: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bo1-pro
SciCode34.4%—
WeirdML40.9%—
LMArena Coding1307—
ALE-Bench566.05—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

gpt-oss-20b: 9.2 (#146), o1-pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bo1-pro
Terminal-Bench3.4%—

Reasoning o1-pro leads

gpt-oss-20b: 18.8 (#251), o1-pro: 20.2 (#223)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bo1-pro
Kagi LLM Benchmark53.2%—
ARC-AGI-1—23.3%
CritPt1.4%—
Chess Puzzles4%—
EnigmaEval—6.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts1274—
DTBench68%—
LMCA14.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index137.81—

Math Not comparable

gpt-oss-20b: 37.6 (#93), o1-pro: —

Math benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bo1-pro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202565.3%—
Omni-MATH56.5%—
LMArena Math1317—

Knowledge gpt-oss-20b leads

gpt-oss-20b: 34.6 (#186), o1-pro: 29.3 (#227)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bo1-pro
GPQA Diamond60.8%—
Humanity's Last Exam—8.1%
MMLU-Pro74%—
GPQA (HELM)59.4%—
LMArena Expert1258—

Multilingual Not comparable

gpt-oss-20b: 42.4 (#192), o1-pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bo1-pro
LMArena Non-English1269—
LMArena Chinese1311—
LMArena German1249—
LMArena Japanese1245—
LMArena Korean1239—
LMArena Russian1279—
LMArena Spanish1267—

Instruction Following Not comparable

gpt-oss-20b: 62.0 (#235), o1-pro: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bo1-pro
IFEval73.2%—
LMArena Instruction Following1236—

Long Context Not comparable

gpt-oss-20b: 37.9 (#203), o1-pro: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bo1-pro
LMArena Longer Query1251—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

gpt-oss-20b: 35.8 (#260), o1-pro: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bo1-pro
LMArena Text1288—
LMArena Creative Writing1201—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing666—
WildBench73.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1268—

Frequently asked questions

Is gpt-oss-20b better than o1-pro?

gpt-oss-20b and o1-pro score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.1 vs 31.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, gpt-oss-20b or o1-pro?

gpt-oss-20b is cheaper. It lists at $0.018 per million input tokens and $0.09 per million output tokens; o1-pro lists at $150 and $600.

Which has the bigger context window?

o1-pro does, with 200K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do gpt-oss-20b and o1-pro share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. gpt-oss-20b has 34 scored results on Noometry and o1-pro has 3.

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