Model comparison

gpt-oss-20b vs Wizardlm 70b

gpt-oss-20b and Wizardlm 70b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.5 vs 33.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

gpt-oss-20b OpenAI

32.5

Rank #255 Confirmed

Wizardlm 70b Microsoft

33.0

Rank #249 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. gpt-oss-20b scores higher in 6 categories and Wizardlm 70b in 1 category; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multilingual, where gpt-oss-20b leads 42.2 to 29.6.

Side by side

gpt-oss-20b and Wizardlm 70b specifications
gpt-oss-20bWizardlm 70b
ProviderOpenAIMicrosoft
Noometry Index32.533.0
Released2025-08-05—
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output16K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.018—
Output $ / M tokens$0.09—
Results tracked3412

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Category by category

Coding gpt-oss-20b leads

gpt-oss-20b: 37.6 (#192), Wizardlm 70b: 31.4 (#285)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bWizardlm 70b
LMArena Coding13061081
SciCode34.4%—
WeirdML40.9%—
ALE-Bench566.05—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

gpt-oss-20b: 9.3 (#154), Wizardlm 70b: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bWizardlm 70b
Terminal-Bench3.4%—

Reasoning Wizardlm 70b leads

gpt-oss-20b: 19.3 (#261), Wizardlm 70b: 20.7 (#234)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bWizardlm 70b
LMArena Hard Prompts12741079
Kagi LLM Benchmark53.2%—
CritPt1.4%—
Chess Puzzles4%—
DTBench68%—
LMCA14.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index137.82—

Math gpt-oss-20b leads

gpt-oss-20b: 39.4 (#103), Wizardlm 70b: 32.2 (#218)

Math benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bWizardlm 70b
LMArena Math13171116
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202565.3%—
Omni-MATH56.5%—

Knowledge Not comparable

gpt-oss-20b: 34.6 (#195), Wizardlm 70b: —

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bWizardlm 70b
GPQA Diamond60.8%—
MMLU-Pro74%—
GPQA (HELM)59.4%—
LMArena Expert1258—

Multilingual gpt-oss-20b leads

gpt-oss-20b: 42.2 (#197), Wizardlm 70b: 29.6 (#265)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bWizardlm 70b
LMArena Non-English12681078
LMArena Chinese13141052
LMArena German12551083
LMArena Russian12781155
LMArena Japanese1244—
LMArena Korean1236—
LMArena Spanish1267—

Instruction Following gpt-oss-20b leads

gpt-oss-20b: 61.8 (#240), Wizardlm 70b: 56.3 (#273)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bWizardlm 70b
LMArena Instruction Following12361093
IFEval73.2%—

Long Context gpt-oss-20b leads

gpt-oss-20b: 37.9 (#209), Wizardlm 70b: 33.3 (#263)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bWizardlm 70b
LMArena Longer Query12501097

Writing & Preference Too close to call

gpt-oss-20b: 35.5 (#265), Wizardlm 70b: 34.8 (#269)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20bWizardlm 70b
LMArena Text12871120
LMArena Creative Writing12011149
LMArena Multi-Turn12681108
EQ-Bench Creative Writing666—
WildBench73.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is gpt-oss-20b better than Wizardlm 70b?

gpt-oss-20b and Wizardlm 70b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (32.5 vs 33.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is gpt-oss-20b or Wizardlm 70b better for coding?

gpt-oss-20b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.6 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do gpt-oss-20b and Wizardlm 70b share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. gpt-oss-20b has 34 scored results on Noometry and Wizardlm 70b has 12.

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