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gpt-oss-120b (free) vs Grok 4

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Winner summary

Grok 4 wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in coding.

Category leads
coding·Grok 4
Hype vs Reality
gpt-oss-120b (free)
#25 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Grok 4
#87 by perf·#15 by attention
UNDERRATED
Best value
gpt-oss-120b (free)
n/a
$0.00/M
Grok 4
n/a
no price
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 4
Aider polyglot
Grok 4 leads by +37.8
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 4
79.6
Full benchmark table
Benchmarkgpt-oss-120b (free)Grok 4
Aider polyglot
Aider Polyglot · measures how well AI models can edit code across multiple programming languages using the Aider coding assistant framework.
41.879.6
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 4————