# gpt-oss-120b vs Olmo 7b Instruct

> gpt-oss-120b is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-oss-120b-vs-olmo-7b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 10

## Summary

- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. gpt-oss-120b scores higher in 6 categories and Olmo 7b Instruct in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where gpt-oss-120b leads 48.0 to 24.0.

## Snapshot

| | gpt-oss-120b | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) |
| Noometry Index | 36.3 | 30.3 |
| Rank | 217 | 295 |
| Context | 131K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.037 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.17 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- gpt-oss-120b: 33.5 (#256)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 29.6 (#303)

| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1380 | 1016 |
| 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

- gpt-oss-120b: 12.2 (#153)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 18.7% | — |
| APEX-Agents | 4.4% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 56.6% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | -21.53 | — |

## Reasoning

- gpt-oss-120b: 20.0 (#245)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 18.8 (#274)

| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1364 | 993 |
| 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

- gpt-oss-120b: 52.5 (#50)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 30.2 (#237)

| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1389 | 1018 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 88.9% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 68.8% | — |

## Knowledge

- gpt-oss-120b: 42.4 (#96)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 79.5% | — |
| Confabulations | 15.7% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 14.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 68.4% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1356 | — |

## Multilingual

- gpt-oss-120b: 48.0 (#147)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 24.0 (#291)

| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1351 | 977 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1385 | 1014 |
| LMArena Russian | 1343 | 947 |
| LMArena French | 1369 | — |
| LMArena German | 1353 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1331 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1282 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1389 | — |

## Instruction Following

- gpt-oss-120b: 69.3 (#173)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 49.0 (#301)

| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1318 | 978 |
| IFEval | 83.6% | — |

## Long Context

- gpt-oss-120b: 31.4 (#278)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: —

| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 44.4% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1319 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- gpt-oss-120b: 46.5 (#217)
- Olmo 7b Instruct: 25.8 (#303)

| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Olmo 7b Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1365 | 1032 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1275 | 990 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1340 | 1007 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 77.1% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 961 | — |
| WildBench | 84.5% | — |

## FAQ

### Is gpt-oss-120b better than Olmo 7b Instruct?

gpt-oss-120b is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.3 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Is gpt-oss-120b or Olmo 7b Instruct better for coding?

gpt-oss-120b scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.5 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do gpt-oss-120b and Olmo 7b Instruct share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. gpt-oss-120b has 48 scored results on Noometry and Olmo 7b Instruct has 10.