Model comparison

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B vs gpt-oss-120b

gpt-oss-120b has enough public results to be ranked (#217); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B DeepSeek

37.6

Unranked Sparse

gpt-oss-120b OpenAI

36.3

Rank #217 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B scores higher in 1 category and gpt-oss-120b in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.

Side by side

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and gpt-oss-120b specifications
DeepSeek Coder 6.7Bgpt-oss-120b
ProviderDeepSeekOpenAI
Noometry Index37.636.3
Released2023-11-022025-08-05
WeightsOpenOpen
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 DeepSeek Coder 6.7B leads

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: 35.8 (#219), gpt-oss-120b: 33.5 (#256)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7Bgpt-oss-120b
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—26%
Aider Polyglot—41.8%
SciCode—36%
WeirdML—48.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct35.5%—
LMArena Coding—1380
BigCodeBench Complete43.8%—
ALE-Bench—575.62
AlgoTune—1.41
HumanEval+71.3%—
MBPP+65.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, gpt-oss-120b: 12.2 (#153)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7Bgpt-oss-120b
Terminal-Bench—18.7%
APEX-Agents—4.4%
METR Time Horizons—56.6%
Vending-Bench 2—-21.53

Reasoning Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, gpt-oss-120b: 20.0 (#245)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7Bgpt-oss-120b
Epoch Capabilities Index89.62139.93
SimpleBench—22.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—58.6%
CritPt—1.1%
Chess Puzzles—20%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1364
Mystery Game Puzzles—2%
DTBench—76.3%
LMCA—22.1%
Surface Evolver Bench—25%
WinoGrande57.6%—

Math Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, gpt-oss-120b: 52.5 (#50)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7Bgpt-oss-120b
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—88.9%
Omni-MATH—68.8%
LMArena Math—1389
GSM8K21.3%—

Knowledge Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, gpt-oss-120b: 42.4 (#96)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7Bgpt-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
ARC (AI2) Challenge36.4%—
MMLU36.4%—

Multilingual Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, gpt-oss-120b: 48.0 (#147)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7Bgpt-oss-120b
LMArena Non-English—1351
LMArena Chinese—1385
LMArena French—1369
LMArena German—1353
LMArena Japanese—1331
LMArena Korean—1282
LMArena Russian—1343
LMArena Spanish—1389

Instruction Following Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, gpt-oss-120b: 69.3 (#173)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7Bgpt-oss-120b
IFEval—83.6%
LMArena Instruction Following—1318

Long Context Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, gpt-oss-120b: 31.4 (#278)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7Bgpt-oss-120b
Fiction.LiveBench—44.4%
LMArena Longer Query—1319

Writing & Preference Not comparable

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B: —, gpt-oss-120b: 46.5 (#217)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek Coder 6.7Bgpt-oss-120b
LMArena Text—1365
LMArena Creative Writing—1275
Short-Story Creative Writing—77.1%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—961
WildBench—84.5%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1340

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B better than gpt-oss-120b?

gpt-oss-120b has enough public results to be ranked (#217); DeepSeek Coder 6.7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is DeepSeek Coder 6.7B or gpt-oss-120b better for coding?

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.8 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 6.7B and gpt-oss-120b share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 6.7B has 9 scored results on Noometry and gpt-oss-120b has 48.

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