Model comparison

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10 vs gpt-oss-120b

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.8 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

gpt-oss-120b OpenAI

36.3

Rank #217 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10 scores higher in 6 categories and gpt-oss-120b in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where gpt-oss-120b leads 52.5 to 38.5.
  • gpt-oss-120b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10 and gpt-oss-120b specifications
Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10gpt-oss-120b
ProviderAmazonOpenAI
Noometry Index42.836.3
Released—2025-08-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—41K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.037
Output $ / M tokens—$0.17
Results tracked1348

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Category by category

Coding Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10 leads

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10: 42.7 (#96), gpt-oss-120b: 33.5 (#256)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Coding14471380
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 26 01 10: —, gpt-oss-120b: 12.2 (#153)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10gpt-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 26 01 10 leads

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10: 28.9 (#98), gpt-oss-120b: 20.0 (#245)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Hard Prompts14151364
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 gpt-oss-120b leads

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10: 38.5 (#136), gpt-oss-120b: 52.5 (#50)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Math14041389
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—88.9%
Omni-MATH—68.8%

Knowledge gpt-oss-120b leads

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10: 40.3 (#120), gpt-oss-120b: 42.4 (#96)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Expert14441356
GPQA Diamond—75.8%
MMLU-Pro—79.5%
Confabulations—15.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—14.2%
GPQA (HELM)—68.4%

Multilingual Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10 leads

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10: 50.2 (#126), gpt-oss-120b: 48.0 (#147)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Non-English13811351
LMArena Chinese13721385
LMArena Russian13911343
LMArena Spanish13901389
LMArena French—1369
LMArena German—1353
LMArena Japanese—1331
LMArena Korean—1282

Instruction Following Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10 leads

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10: 72.9 (#126), gpt-oss-120b: 69.3 (#173)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Instruction Following13811318
IFEval—83.6%

Long Context Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10 leads

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10: 42.7 (#119), gpt-oss-120b: 31.4 (#278)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Longer Query14001319
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%

Writing & Preference Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10 leads

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10: 57.4 (#129), gpt-oss-120b: 46.5 (#217)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkAmazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Text13961365
LMArena Creative Writing13311275
LMArena Multi-Turn13801340
Short-Story Creative Writing—77.1%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—961
WildBench—84.5%

Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10 better than gpt-oss-120b?

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.8 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10 or gpt-oss-120b better for coding?

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.7 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10 and gpt-oss-120b share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 26 01 10 has 13 scored results on Noometry and gpt-oss-120b has 48.

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