Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs gpt-oss-20b

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.4 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index. gpt-oss-20b costs 278× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.4

Rank #17 Confirmed

gpt-oss-20b OpenAI

32.1

Rank #249 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 9 categories and gpt-oss-20b in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 75.3 to 35.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench: 80.2% for Claude Opus 4.7 and 3.4% for gpt-oss-20b.
  • gpt-oss-20b is cheaper at $0.018 / $0.09 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.7.
  • Claude Opus 4.7 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
  • gpt-oss-20b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7 and gpt-oss-20b specifications
Claude Opus 4.7gpt-oss-20b
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index58.432.1
Released2026-04-142025-08-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M131K
Max output128K16K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.018
Output $ / M tokens$25$0.09
Results tracked6634

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.9 (#10), gpt-oss-20b: 37.1 (#185)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7gpt-oss-20b
SciCode54.5%34.4%
WeirdML76.4%40.9%
LMArena Coding15191307
ALE-Bench1,323566.05
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
FrontierCode38.5%—
LMArena WebDev1557—
GSO44.1%—
MirrorCode31.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#8), gpt-oss-20b: 9.2 (#146)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7gpt-oss-20b
Terminal-Bench80.2%3.4%
APEX-Agents49.2%—
OSWorld 2.018.2%—
τ²-bench Banking40.2%—
PostTrainBench28.6%—
ExploitBench26.5%—
GBAEval43.8%—
GDP.pdf21%—
LMArena Search1233—
Vending-Bench 210,937—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 53.7 (#24), gpt-oss-20b: 18.8 (#251)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7gpt-oss-20b
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%53.2%
CritPt12%1.4%
Chess Puzzles30%4%
LMArena Hard Prompts15071274
DTBench94.7%68%
LMCA52.2%14.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.39137.81
ARC-AGI-275.8%—
SimpleBench61.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)39%—
ARC-AGI-193.5%—
Thematic Generalization72.8%—
EBR-Bench19%—
Mystery Game Puzzles28%—
ForecastBench60.3—

Math Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 66.5 (#20), gpt-oss-20b: 37.6 (#93)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#20), gpt-oss-20b: 34.6 (#186)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7gpt-oss-20b
GPQA Diamond90.2%60.8%
LMArena Expert15211258
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified51.7%—
MMLU-Pro—74%
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)—59.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.5 (#29), gpt-oss-20b: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7gpt-oss-20b
LMArena Vision1317—
Blueprint-Bench 224.5%—
Furniture Assembly33.3%—
LMArena Document1495—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 57.5 (#9), gpt-oss-20b: 42.4 (#192)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7gpt-oss-20b
LMArena Non-English14811269
LMArena Chinese15301311
LMArena German14941249
LMArena Japanese14721245
LMArena Korean14661239
LMArena Russian14941279
LMArena Spanish14971267
LMArena French1505—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.6 (#9), gpt-oss-20b: 62.0 (#235)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7gpt-oss-20b
LMArena Instruction Following14981236
IFEval—73.2%

Long Context Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.1 (#24), gpt-oss-20b: 37.9 (#203)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7gpt-oss-20b
LMArena Longer Query15051251

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.3 (#8), gpt-oss-20b: 35.8 (#260)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7gpt-oss-20b
LMArena Text14911288
LMArena Creative Writing14861201
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1914666
LMArena Multi-Turn15061268
WildBench—73.7%
EQ-Bench 41311—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than gpt-oss-20b?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.4 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index. gpt-oss-20b costs 278× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.7 or gpt-oss-20b?

gpt-oss-20b is cheaper. It lists at $0.018 per million input tokens and $0.09 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.7 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or gpt-oss-20b better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 37.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.7 does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and gpt-oss-20b share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and gpt-oss-20b has 34.

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