Model comparison
gpt-oss-120b vs Qwen3 8B
gpt-oss-120b is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.0 to 33.3 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. gpt-oss-120b scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3 8B in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Qwen3 8B leads 29.9 to 12.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 88.9% for gpt-oss-120b and 56.1% for Qwen3 8B.
- gpt-oss-120b is cheaper at $0.037 / $0.17 per million input/output tokens, against $0.18 / $0.70 for Qwen3 8B.
Side by side
| gpt-oss-120b | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 36.0 | 33.3 |
| Released | 2025-08-05 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | 131K |
| Max output | 41K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.037 | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.17 | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 48 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
gpt-oss-120b: 33.2 (#251), Qwen3 8B: 33.4 (#245)
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 36% | 22.6% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 26% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 41.8% | — |
| WeirdML | 48.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1380 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 575.62 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.41 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3 8B leads
gpt-oss-120b: 12.1 (#145), Qwen3 8B: 29.9 (#71)
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 18.7% | — |
| APEX-Agents | 4.4% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |
| METR Time Horizons | 56.6% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | -21.53 | — |
Reasoning gpt-oss-120b leads
gpt-oss-120b: 19.5 (#236), Qwen3 8B: 16.1 (#299)
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 1.1% | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | 20% | 5% |
| DTBench | 76.3% | 59.7% |
| LMCA | 22.1% | 8.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 139.94 | 136.17 |
| SimpleBench | 22.1% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 58.6% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1364 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 2% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 25% | — |
Math gpt-oss-120b leads
gpt-oss-120b: 50.6 (#43), Qwen3 8B: 33.3 (#176)
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 88.9% | 56.1% |
| Omni-MATH | 68.8% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1388 | — |
Knowledge gpt-oss-120b leads
gpt-oss-120b: 42.3 (#89), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#164)
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | 56.8% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 14.2% | 4.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | 79.5% | — |
| Confabulations | 15.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 68.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1356 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
gpt-oss-120b: 48.2 (#142), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1350 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1384 | — |
| LMArena French | 1370 | — |
| LMArena German | 1355 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1332 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1283 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1343 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1388 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
gpt-oss-120b: 69.5 (#168), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 83.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1318 | — |
Long Context Qwen3 8B leads
gpt-oss-120b: 31.4 (#273), Qwen3 8B: 37.8 (#205)
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 44.4% | 62.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1319 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
gpt-oss-120b: 46.7 (#213), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1366 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1274 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 77.1% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 961 | — |
| WildBench | 84.5% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1340 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is gpt-oss-120b better than Qwen3 8B?
gpt-oss-120b is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.0 to 33.3 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, gpt-oss-120b or Qwen3 8B?
gpt-oss-120b is cheaper. It lists at $0.037 per million input tokens and $0.17 per million output tokens; Qwen3 8B lists at $0.18 and $0.70.
Is gpt-oss-120b or Qwen3 8B better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (33.2 vs 33.4); test both on your own repository before choosing.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 131K tokens.
How many benchmarks do gpt-oss-120b and Qwen3 8B share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. gpt-oss-120b has 48 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.