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R1 Distill Qwen 32B vs gpt-oss-120b

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Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · R1 Distill Qwen 32B · gpt-oss-120b are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
R1 Distill Qwen 32B
#210 by perf·no signal
QUIET
gpt-oss-120b
#108 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
5.4x better value than R1 Distill Qwen 32B
R1 Distill Qwen 32B
79.3 pts/$
$0.29/M
gpt-oss-120b
428.3 pts/$
$0.11/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoR1 Distill Qwen 32B$0.29$0.2933K tokens (~16 books)$2.90
OpenAI logogpt-oss-120b$0.04$0.18131K tokens (~66 books)$0.74