Model comparison

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 vs gpt-oss-120b

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 OpenAI

43.8

Rank #82 Confirmed

gpt-oss-120b OpenAI

36.3

Rank #217 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 scores higher in 6 categories and gpt-oss-120b in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads 62.6 to 46.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 75% for Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 and 58.6% for gpt-oss-120b.
  • gpt-oss-120b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 and gpt-oss-120b specifications
Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326gpt-oss-120b
ProviderOpenAIOpenAI
Noometry Index43.836.3
Released—2025-08-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—41K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.037
Output $ / M tokens—$0.17
Results tracked2148

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Category by category

Coding Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 41.6 (#122), gpt-oss-120b: 33.5 (#256)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Coding14131380
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

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: —, gpt-oss-120b: 12.2 (#153)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326gpt-oss-120b
Terminal-Bench—18.7%
APEX-Agents—4.4%
METR Time Horizons—56.6%
Vending-Bench 2—-21.53

Reasoning Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 33.8 (#71), gpt-oss-120b: 20.0 (#245)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326gpt-oss-120b
Kagi LLM Benchmark75%58.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts14241364
SimpleBench—22.1%
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

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 38.6 (#134), gpt-oss-120b: 52.5 (#50)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Math14071389
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—88.9%
Omni-MATH—68.8%

Knowledge gpt-oss-120b leads

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 39.2 (#137), gpt-oss-120b: 42.4 (#96)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326gpt-oss-120b
Confabulations16.6%15.7%
LMArena Expert14011356
GPQA Diamond—75.8%
MMLU-Pro—79.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—14.2%
GPQA (HELM)—68.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 39.6 (#58), gpt-oss-120b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Vision1243—

Multilingual Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 52.9 (#76), gpt-oss-120b: 48.0 (#147)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Non-English14191351
LMArena Chinese14571385
LMArena French14461369
LMArena German14231353
LMArena Japanese14051331
LMArena Korean13961282
LMArena Russian14291343
LMArena Spanish14341389

Instruction Following Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 74.0 (#107), gpt-oss-120b: 69.3 (#173)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Instruction Following14031318
IFEval—83.6%

Long Context Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 43.1 (#107), gpt-oss-120b: 31.4 (#278)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Longer Query14131319
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%

Writing & Preference Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 leads

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326: 62.6 (#72), gpt-oss-120b: 46.5 (#217)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkChatgpt 4o Latest 20250326gpt-oss-120b
LMArena Text14291365
LMArena Creative Writing14051275
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1501961
LMArena Multi-Turn14541340
Short-Story Creative Writing—77.1%
WildBench—84.5%

Frequently asked questions

Is Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 better than gpt-oss-120b?

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.8 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 or gpt-oss-120b better for coding?

Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.6 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 and gpt-oss-120b share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Chatgpt 4o Latest 20250326 has 21 scored results on Noometry and gpt-oss-120b has 48.

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