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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

Grok 4.3 wins 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed.

Category leads
speed·Grok 4.3
Hype vs Reality
Grok 4.3
#32 by perf·no signal
QUIET
gpt-oss-120b (free)
#26 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
Grok 4.3
35.6 pts/$
$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
Head to head
Grok 4.3gpt-oss-120b (free)
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Grok 4.3 leads by +10.9
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
Grok 4.3
24.1
gpt-oss-120b (free)
13.2
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Grok 4.3 leads by +11.8
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
Grok 4.3
42.3
gpt-oss-120b (free)
30.4
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
Grok 4.3 leads by +13.8
Grok 4.3
37.6
gpt-oss-120b (free)
23.8
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGrok 4.3gpt-oss-120b (free)
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
24.113.2
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
42.330.4
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
37.623.8
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)