Model comparison

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 vs gpt-oss-120b

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.9 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.

gpt-oss-120b OpenAI

36.3

Rank #217 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 scores higher in 5 categories and gpt-oss-120b in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 leads 40.5 to 31.4.
  • gpt-oss-120b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 and gpt-oss-120b specifications
Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09gpt-oss-120b
ProviderAmazonOpenAI
Noometry Index41.936.3
Released—2025-08-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—41K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.037
Output $ / M tokens—$0.17
Results tracked948

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Category by category

Coding Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 leads

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09: 40.2 (#145), gpt-oss-120b: 33.5 (#256)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Coding13701380
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—26%
Aider Polyglot—41.8%
SciCode—36%
WeirdML—48.2%
ALE-Bench—575.62
AlgoTune—1.41

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09: —, gpt-oss-120b: 12.2 (#153)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09gpt-oss-120b
Terminal-Bench—18.7%
APEX-Agents—4.4%
METR Time Horizons—56.6%
Vending-Bench 2—-21.53

Reasoning Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 leads

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09: 27.3 (#120), gpt-oss-120b: 20.0 (#245)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Hard Prompts13561364
SimpleBench—22.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—58.6%
CritPt—1.1%
Chess Puzzles—20%
Mystery Game Puzzles—2%
DTBench—76.3%
LMCA—22.1%
Surface Evolver Bench—25%
Epoch Capabilities Index—139.93

Math Not comparable

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09: —, gpt-oss-120b: 52.5 (#50)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09gpt-oss-120b
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—88.9%
Omni-MATH—68.8%
LMArena Math—1389

Knowledge Not comparable

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09: —, gpt-oss-120b: 42.4 (#96)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09gpt-oss-120b
GPQA Diamond—75.8%
MMLU-Pro—79.5%
Confabulations—15.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—14.2%
GPQA (HELM)—68.4%
LMArena Expert—1356

Multilingual Too close to call

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09: 47.3 (#150), gpt-oss-120b: 48.0 (#147)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Non-English13401351
LMArena Chinese13411385
LMArena French—1369
LMArena German—1353
LMArena Japanese—1331
LMArena Korean—1282
LMArena Russian—1343
LMArena Spanish—1389

Instruction Following Too close to call

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09: 69.4 (#172), gpt-oss-120b: 69.3 (#173)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Instruction Following13151318
IFEval—83.6%

Long Context Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 leads

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09: 40.5 (#152), gpt-oss-120b: 31.4 (#278)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Longer Query13331319
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%

Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 leads

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09: 54.7 (#149), gpt-oss-120b: 46.5 (#217)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Text13641365
LMArena Creative Writing13071275
LMArena Multi-Turn13551340
Short-Story Creative Writing—77.1%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—961
WildBench—84.5%

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 better than gpt-oss-120b?

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.9 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 or gpt-oss-120b better for coding?

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.2 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 and gpt-oss-120b share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 has 9 scored results on Noometry and gpt-oss-120b has 48.

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