Model comparison

gpt-oss-20b vs Phi-1.5

gpt-oss-20b has enough public results to be ranked (#249); Phi-1.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

gpt-oss-20b OpenAI

32.1

Rank #249 Confirmed

Phi-1.5 Microsoft

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Unranked

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.

Side by side

gpt-oss-20b and Phi-1.5 specifications
gpt-oss-20bPhi-1.5
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index32.1—
Released2025-08-052023-09-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.018—
Output $ / M tokens$0.09—
Results tracked347

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

gpt-oss-20b: 37.1 (#185), Phi-1.5: —

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bPhi-1.5
SciCode34.4%—
WeirdML40.9%—
LMArena Coding1307—
ALE-Bench566.05—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

gpt-oss-20b: 9.2 (#146), Phi-1.5: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bPhi-1.5
Terminal-Bench3.4%—

Reasoning Not comparable

gpt-oss-20b: 18.8 (#251), Phi-1.5: —

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bPhi-1.5
Epoch Capabilities Index137.8190.82
Kagi LLM Benchmark53.2%—
CritPt1.4%—
Chess Puzzles4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1274—
DTBench68%—
LMCA14.5%—
HellaSwag—47.6%
WinoGrande—73.4%

Math Not comparable

gpt-oss-20b: 37.6 (#93), Phi-1.5: —

Math benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bPhi-1.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202565.3%—
Omni-MATH56.5%—
LMArena Math1317—

Knowledge Not comparable

gpt-oss-20b: 34.6 (#186), Phi-1.5: —

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bPhi-1.5
GPQA Diamond60.8%—
MMLU-Pro74%—
GPQA (HELM)59.4%—
LMArena Expert1258—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—44.4%
BoolQ—75.8%
MMLU—37.6%
OpenBookQA—37.2%

Multilingual Not comparable

gpt-oss-20b: 42.4 (#192), Phi-1.5: —

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bPhi-1.5
LMArena Non-English1269—
LMArena Chinese1311—
LMArena German1249—
LMArena Japanese1245—
LMArena Korean1239—
LMArena Russian1279—
LMArena Spanish1267—

Instruction Following Not comparable

gpt-oss-20b: 62.0 (#235), Phi-1.5: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bPhi-1.5
IFEval73.2%—
LMArena Instruction Following1236—

Long Context Not comparable

gpt-oss-20b: 37.9 (#203), Phi-1.5: —

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bPhi-1.5
LMArena Longer Query1251—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

gpt-oss-20b: 35.8 (#260), Phi-1.5: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bPhi-1.5
LMArena Text1288—
LMArena Creative Writing1201—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing666—
WildBench73.7%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1268—

Frequently asked questions

Is gpt-oss-20b better than Phi-1.5?

gpt-oss-20b has enough public results to be ranked (#249); Phi-1.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do gpt-oss-20b and Phi-1.5 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. gpt-oss-20b has 34 scored results on Noometry and Phi-1.5 has 7.

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