# Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 vs gpt-oss-120b

> Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.9 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/amazon-nova-experimental-chat-10-09-vs-gpt-oss-120b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 9

## Summary

- They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 scores higher in 5 categories and gpt-oss-120b in 1 category; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 leads 40.5 to 31.4.
- gpt-oss-120b has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 | gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Amazon | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 41.9 | 36.3 |
| Rank | 126 | 217 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.037 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.17 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09: 40.2 (#145)
- gpt-oss-120b: 33.5 (#256)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 | gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1370 | 1380 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 26% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 41.8% |
| SciCode | — | 36% |
| WeirdML | — | 48.2% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 575.62 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.41 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09: —
- gpt-oss-120b: 12.2 (#153)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 | gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 18.7% |
| APEX-Agents | — | 4.4% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 56.6% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | -21.53 |

## Reasoning

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09: 27.3 (#120)
- gpt-oss-120b: 20.0 (#245)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 | gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1356 | 1364 |
| SimpleBench | — | 22.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 58.6% |
| CritPt | — | 1.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 20% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 2% |
| DTBench | — | 76.3% |
| LMCA | — | 22.1% |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 25% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 139.93 |

## Math

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09: —
- gpt-oss-120b: 52.5 (#50)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 | gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 88.9% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 68.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1389 |

## Knowledge

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09: —
- gpt-oss-120b: 42.4 (#96)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 | gpt-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 |

## Multilingual

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09: 47.3 (#150)
- gpt-oss-120b: 48.0 (#147)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 | gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1340 | 1351 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1341 | 1385 |
| LMArena French | — | 1369 |
| LMArena German | — | 1353 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1331 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1282 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1343 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1389 |

## Instruction Following

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09: 69.4 (#172)
- gpt-oss-120b: 69.3 (#173)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 | gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1315 | 1318 |
| IFEval | — | 83.6% |

## Long Context

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09: 40.5 (#152)
- gpt-oss-120b: 31.4 (#278)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 | gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1333 | 1319 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 44.4% |

## Writing & Preference

- Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09: 54.7 (#149)
- gpt-oss-120b: 46.5 (#217)

| Benchmark | Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 | gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1364 | 1365 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1307 | 1275 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1355 | 1340 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 77.1% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 961 |
| WildBench | — | 84.5% |

## FAQ

### Is Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 better than gpt-oss-120b?

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.9 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 or gpt-oss-120b better for coding?

Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.2 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 and gpt-oss-120b share?

9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Amazon Nova Experimental Chat 10 09 has 9 scored results on Noometry and gpt-oss-120b has 48.