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gpt-oss-20b (free) vs Kimi K2 Thinking

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Winner summary

Kimi K2 Thinking wins 6 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in math · knowledge · language.

Category leads
math·Kimi K2 Thinkingknowledge·Kimi K2 Thinkinglanguage·Kimi K2 Thinkingcoding·Kimi K2 Thinking
Hype vs Reality
gpt-oss-20b (free)
#27 by perf·no signal
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Kimi K2 Thinking
#79 by perf·no signal
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Best value
gpt-oss-20b (free)
$0.00/M
Kimi K2 Thinking
34.4 pts/$
$1.55/M
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
moonshotai logo
moonshotai
private · undisclosed
Unknown
Head to head
gpt-oss-20b (free)Kimi K2 Thinking
OpenCompass · AIME2025
Kimi K2 Thinking leads by +6.2
gpt-oss-20b (free)
87.9
Kimi K2 Thinking
94.1
OpenCompass · GPQA-Diamond
Kimi K2 Thinking leads by +13.8
gpt-oss-20b (free)
68.9
Kimi K2 Thinking
82.7
OpenCompass · HLE
Kimi K2 Thinking leads by +9.7
gpt-oss-20b (free)
11.6
Kimi K2 Thinking
21.3
OpenCompass · IFEval
Kimi K2 Thinking leads by +3.5
gpt-oss-20b (free)
88.9
Kimi K2 Thinking
92.4
OpenCompass · LiveCodeBenchV6
Kimi K2 Thinking leads by +8.7
gpt-oss-20b (free)
68.4
Kimi K2 Thinking
77.1
OpenCompass · MMLU-Pro
Kimi K2 Thinking leads by +11.5
gpt-oss-20b (free)
72.8
Kimi K2 Thinking
84.3
Full benchmark table
Benchmarkgpt-oss-20b (free)Kimi K2 Thinking
OpenCompass · AIME2025
87.994.1
OpenCompass · GPQA-Diamond
68.982.7
OpenCompass · HLE
11.621.3
OpenCompass · IFEval
88.992.4
OpenCompass · LiveCodeBenchV6
68.477.1
OpenCompass · MMLU-Pro
72.884.3
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logogpt-oss-20b (free)$0.00$0.00131K tokens (~66 books)
moonshotai logoKimi K2 Thinking$0.60$2.50262K tokens (~131 books)$10.75