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Claude Opus 5 vs gpt-oss-120b (free)

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Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · Claude Opus 5 · gpt-oss-120b (free) are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
Claude Opus 5
#21 by perf·#6 by attention
DESERVED
gpt-oss-120b (free)
#25 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
Claude Opus 5
4.6 pts/$
$15.00/M
gpt-oss-120b (free)
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$0.00/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 5$5.00$25.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$100.00
OpenAI logogpt-oss-120b (free)$0.00$0.00131K tokens (~66 books)—