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gpt-oss-120b (free) vs MiniMax M2

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Winner summary

gpt-oss-120b (free) wins 5 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in math · knowledge · language.

Category leads
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Hype vs Reality
gpt-oss-120b (free)
#26 by perf·no signal
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MiniMax M2
#22 by perf·no signal
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Best value
gpt-oss-120b (free)
$0.00/M
MiniMax M2
109.0 pts/$
$0.64/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
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MiniMax
$4.0B·Tier 1
Higher risk
Head to head
gpt-oss-120b (free)MiniMax M2
OpenCompass · AIME2025
gpt-oss-120b (free) leads by +14.3
gpt-oss-120b (free)
93.4
MiniMax M2
79.1
OpenCompass · GPQA-Diamond
gpt-oss-120b (free) leads by +0.2
gpt-oss-120b (free)
78.9
MiniMax M2
78.7
OpenCompass · HLE
gpt-oss-120b (free) leads by +4.9
gpt-oss-120b (free)
18.3
MiniMax M2
13.4
OpenCompass · IFEval
gpt-oss-120b (free)
90.2
MiniMax M2
90.2
OpenCompass · LiveCodeBenchV6
gpt-oss-120b (free) leads by +4.4
gpt-oss-120b (free)
78.4
MiniMax M2
74.0
OpenCompass · MMLU-Pro
MiniMax M2 leads by +1.9
gpt-oss-120b (free)
79.7
MiniMax M2
81.6
Full benchmark table
Benchmarkgpt-oss-120b (free)MiniMax M2
OpenCompass · AIME2025
93.479.1
OpenCompass · GPQA-Diamond
78.978.7
OpenCompass · HLE
18.313.4
OpenCompass · IFEval
90.290.2
OpenCompass · LiveCodeBenchV6
78.474.0
OpenCompass · MMLU-Pro
79.781.6
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logogpt-oss-120b (free)$0.00$0.00131K tokens (~66 books)
minimax logoMiniMax M2$0.26$1.02205K tokens (~102 books)$4.46