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Grok 4.3 vs gpt-oss-120b (free)

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

Winner summary

Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · Grok 4.3 · gpt-oss-120b (free) are still filling in scores.

Hype vs Reality
Grok 4.3
no bench·no signal
QUIET
gpt-oss-120b (free)
#22 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
Grok 4.3
$1.88/M
gpt-oss-120b (free)
$0.00/M
Vendor risk
xAI logo
xAI
$250.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
xAI logoGrok 4.3$1.25$2.501.0M tokens (~500 books)$15.63
OpenAI logogpt-oss-120b (free)$0.00$0.00131K tokens (~66 books)