Model comparison

gpt-oss-120b vs Nemotron-4 15B

gpt-oss-120b has enough public results to be ranked (#217); Nemotron-4 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

gpt-oss-120b OpenAI

36.3

Rank #217 Confirmed

Nemotron-4 15B NVIDIA

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Unranked

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • gpt-oss-120b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

gpt-oss-120b and Nemotron-4 15B specifications
gpt-oss-120bNemotron-4 15B
ProviderOpenAINVIDIA
Noometry Index36.3—
Released2025-08-052024-02-26
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window131K—
Max output41K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.037—
Output $ / M tokens$0.17—
Results tracked488

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

gpt-oss-120b: 33.5 (#256), Nemotron-4 15B: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-120bNemotron-4 15B
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)26%—
Aider Polyglot41.8%—
SciCode36%—
WeirdML48.2%—
LMArena Coding1380—
ALE-Bench575.62—
AlgoTune1.41—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

gpt-oss-120b: 12.2 (#153), Nemotron-4 15B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-120bNemotron-4 15B
Terminal-Bench18.7%—
APEX-Agents4.4%—
METR Time Horizons56.6%—
Vending-Bench 2-21.53—

Reasoning Not comparable

gpt-oss-120b: 20.0 (#245), Nemotron-4 15B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-120bNemotron-4 15B
Epoch Capabilities Index139.93107.72
SimpleBench22.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark58.6%—
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles20%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1364—
Mystery Game Puzzles2%—
DTBench76.3%—
LMCA22.1%—
Surface Evolver Bench25%—
BIG-Bench Hard—58.7%
HellaSwag—82.4%
PIQA—82.4%
WinoGrande—78%

Math Not comparable

gpt-oss-120b: 52.5 (#50), Nemotron-4 15B: —

Math benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-120bNemotron-4 15B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202588.9%—
Omni-MATH68.8%—
LMArena Math1389—
GSM8K—46%

Knowledge Not comparable

gpt-oss-120b: 42.4 (#96), Nemotron-4 15B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-120bNemotron-4 15B
GPQA Diamond75.8%—
MMLU-Pro79.5%—
Confabulations15.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.2%—
GPQA (HELM)68.4%—
LMArena Expert1356—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—55.5%
MMLU—58.7%

Multilingual Not comparable

gpt-oss-120b: 48.0 (#147), Nemotron-4 15B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-120bNemotron-4 15B
LMArena Non-English1351—
LMArena Chinese1385—
LMArena French1369—
LMArena German1353—
LMArena Japanese1331—
LMArena Korean1282—
LMArena Russian1343—
LMArena Spanish1389—

Instruction Following Not comparable

gpt-oss-120b: 69.3 (#173), Nemotron-4 15B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-120bNemotron-4 15B
IFEval83.6%—
LMArena Instruction Following1318—

Long Context Not comparable

gpt-oss-120b: 31.4 (#278), Nemotron-4 15B: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-120bNemotron-4 15B
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%—
LMArena Longer Query1319—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

gpt-oss-120b: 46.5 (#217), Nemotron-4 15B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-120bNemotron-4 15B
LMArena Text1365—
LMArena Creative Writing1275—
Short-Story Creative Writing77.1%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing961—
WildBench84.5%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1340—

Frequently asked questions

Is gpt-oss-120b better than Nemotron-4 15B?

gpt-oss-120b has enough public results to be ranked (#217); Nemotron-4 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do gpt-oss-120b and Nemotron-4 15B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. gpt-oss-120b has 48 scored results on Noometry and Nemotron-4 15B has 8.

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