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gpt-oss-120b (free) vs Grok 3 Beta

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

Grok 3 Beta wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in coding.

Category leads
coding·Grok 3 Beta
Hype vs Reality
gpt-oss-120b (free)
#26 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Grok 3 Beta
#21 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
gpt-oss-120b (free)
$0.00/M
Grok 3 Beta
7.7 pts/$
$9.00/M
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
xAI logo
xAI
$250.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
gpt-oss-120b (free)Grok 3 Beta
Aider polyglot
Grok 3 Beta leads by +11.5
Aider Polyglot · measures how well AI models can edit code across multiple programming languages using the Aider coding assistant framework.
gpt-oss-120b (free)
41.8
Grok 3 Beta
53.3
Full benchmark table
Benchmarkgpt-oss-120b (free)Grok 3 Beta
Aider polyglot
Aider Polyglot · measures how well AI models can edit code across multiple programming languages using the Aider coding assistant framework.
41.853.3
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logogpt-oss-120b (free)$0.00$0.00131K tokens (~66 books)
xAI logoGrok 3 Beta$3.00$15.00131K tokens (~66 books)$60.00