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Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs gpt-oss-20b

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Winner summary

gpt-oss-20b wins 6 of 10 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · knowledge · math.

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Hype vs Reality
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
#190 by perf·no signal
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gpt-oss-20b
#97 by perf·no signal
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Best value
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
n/a
no price
gpt-oss-20b
983.3 pts/$
$0.05/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Claude 3.5 Sonnetgpt-oss-20b
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads by +56.4
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
1374.0
gpt-oss-20b
1317.6
Dtbench
gpt-oss-20b leads by +0.4
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
46.3
gpt-oss-20b
46.7
GPQA diamond
gpt-oss-20b leads by +9.0
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
38.7
gpt-oss-20b
47.7
HELM · GPQA
gpt-oss-20b leads by +2.9
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
56.5
gpt-oss-20b
59.4
HELM · IFEval
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads by +12.4
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
85.6
gpt-oss-20b
73.2
HELM · MMLU-Pro
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads by +3.7
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
77.7
gpt-oss-20b
74.0
HELM · Omni-MATH
gpt-oss-20b leads by +28.9
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
27.6
gpt-oss-20b
56.5
HELM · WildBench
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads by +5.5
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
79.2
gpt-oss-20b
73.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
gpt-oss-20b leads by +58.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
6.4
gpt-oss-20b
65.2
WeirdML
gpt-oss-20b leads by +10.0
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
31.0
gpt-oss-20b
40.9
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 Sonnetgpt-oss-20b
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1374.01317.6
Dtbench
46.346.7
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
38.747.7
HELM · GPQA
56.559.4
HELM · IFEval
85.673.2
HELM · MMLU-Pro
77.774.0
HELM · Omni-MATH
27.656.5
HELM · WildBench
79.273.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
6.465.2
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
31.040.9
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude 3.5 Sonnet————
OpenAI logogpt-oss-20b$0.02$0.09131K tokens (~66 books)$0.36