gpt-oss-120b vs Llama 4 Scout
gpt-oss-120b leads Llama 4 Scout on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 11.6 to 6.5, at about the same output price ($0.50 vs $0.50 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 65 benchmarks have a result for both.
gpt-oss-120b or Llama 4 Scout: which to pick
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick gpt-oss-120b for a lower cost per solved task ($0.51 against $1.276).
- Shared results
- 65
- gpt-oss-120b only
- 20
- Llama 4 Scout only
- 17
- Like-for-like categories
- 8 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Neither has a coding score yet.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
gpt-oss-120b
gpt-oss-120b leads, 11.6 against 6.5.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
gpt-oss-120b
gpt-oss-120b leads, 3.7 against 0.5.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
gpt-oss-120b
gpt-oss-120b leads, 78.5% against 47.0%.
Same board, both measured
Math
AIME
gpt-oss-120b
gpt-oss-120b leads, 92.6% against 19.0%.
Same board, both measured
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
gpt-oss-120b
gpt-oss-120b leads, 79.2% against 69.6%.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
gpt-oss-120b
gpt-oss-120b leads, 968 against 750.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Llama 4 Scout
Llama 4 Scout takes 1.31M tokens against 131K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
gpt-oss-120b
gpt-oss-120b $0.0003, Llama 4 Scout $0.0004 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
gpt-oss-120b
gpt-oss-120b $0.51, Llama 4 Scout $1.276.
Published attempt cost and pass rate
At a glance
- Coding index
- gpt-oss-120b not benchmarked, Llama 4 Scout not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Math, 45.9 points apart on average over 8 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- OTIS Mock AIME: gpt-oss-120b 88.9% against Llama 4 Scout 7.8%, 81.1 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Both cost $0.50 per million output tokens.
- Context window
- gpt-oss-120b takes 131K tokens, Llama 4 Scout 1.31M.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | gpt-oss-120b | Bars | Llama 4 Scout | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 8 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 2 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 2 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 8 | 0 | ||
| Math | 8 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 10 | 0 | ||
| Web design | 5 | 0 | ||
| General | 22 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 65 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index80
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | 41.8% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| SWE-bench Verified | 26.0% | 9.1% | gpt-oss-120b |
| AA Coding Index | 30.4 | 8.2 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 83.2% | 38.5% | gpt-oss-120b |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 33.6% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 87.8% | 29.9% | gpt-oss-120b |
| SciCode | 34.0% | 21.3% | gpt-oss-120b |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 23.5% | 1.5% | gpt-oss-120b |
| Terminal-Bench | 18.7% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| WeirdML | 48.2% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| ALE-Bench | 575.6 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1379 | 1286 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1387 | 1286 | gpt-oss-120b |
| SciCode | 7.7% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 29 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 11.6 | 6.5 | gpt-oss-120b |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 139.8 | 129.6 | gpt-oss-120b |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 3.7 | 0.5 | gpt-oss-120b |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 65.8% | 15.5% | gpt-oss-120b |
| APEX-Agents | 4.4% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| METR time horizons | 56.6% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | -$22 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) | Not measured | 28.1% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| BrowseComp-Plus | 67.0% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 35 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index80
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 78.5% | 47.0% | gpt-oss-120b |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | Not measured | 58.8% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 78.2% | 58.7% | gpt-oss-120b |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 19.6% | 3.8% | gpt-oss-120b |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 75.8% | 51.8% | gpt-oss-120b |
| ARC-AGI | Not measured | 0.5% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not measured | 0.0% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| SimpleBench | 22.1% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 2.0% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1364 | 1266 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1356 | 1235 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1368 | 1293 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1125 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1148 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 58.6% | 36.9% | gpt-oss-120b |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index80
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 92.6% | 19.0% | gpt-oss-120b |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | 94.8% | 79.2% | gpt-oss-120b |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 92.0% | 88.0% | gpt-oss-120b |
| AA Math Index | 93.4 | 14.0 | gpt-oss-120b |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 93.4% | 14.0% | gpt-oss-120b |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 88.9% | 7.8% | gpt-oss-120b |
| MATH level 5 | Not measured | 62.3% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1389 | 1287 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1386 | 1286 | gpt-oss-120b |
| MathArena | 15.1% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index100
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 79.2% | 69.6% | gpt-oss-120b |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 75.9% | 72.0% | gpt-oss-120b |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 48.8% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 58.2% | 46.8% | gpt-oss-120b |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 71.6% | 55.2% | gpt-oss-120b |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 57.8% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 91.4% | 50.9% | gpt-oss-120b |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | Not measured | 23.3% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 80.8% | 75.2% | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Text: science | 1382 | 1278 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1388 | 1275 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1355 | 1285 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1359 | 1257 | gpt-oss-120b |
| PRBench Finance | 43.8% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| PRBench Legal | 40.2% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 968 | 750 | gpt-oss-120b |
| Design Arena: UI components | 924 | 765 | gpt-oss-120b |
| Design Arena: game dev | 991 | 772 | gpt-oss-120b |
| Design Arena: data viz | 987 | 896 | gpt-oss-120b |
| Design Arena: 3D | 901 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 962 | 789 | gpt-oss-120b |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index220
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 34.8% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | Not measured | 50.6% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| IFBench | 69.0% | 39.5% | gpt-oss-120b |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 52.0% | 27.7% | gpt-oss-120b |
| DTBench | 76.3% | 57.9% | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMCA | 22.1% | 12.0% | gpt-oss-120b |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 44.4% | 36.0% | gpt-oss-120b |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 77.1% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 25.0% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text | 1366 | 1279 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1318 | 1248 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1274 | 1249 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1118 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1375 | 1304 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1351 | 1252 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1385 | 1255 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Text: German | 1353 | 1273 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1331 | 1206 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1282 | 1207 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Text: French | 1370 | 1283 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1389 | 1278 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1343 | 1263 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1353 | 1265 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1340 | 1280 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1319 | 1265 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1306 | 1269 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1292 | 1242 | gpt-oss-120b |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1143 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1106 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1117 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | Not measured | 1102 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1126 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MultiChallenge | 45.3% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
gpt-oss-120b costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
gpt-oss-120b costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
gpt-oss-120b costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | OpenAI gpt-oss-120b | Meta Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | Meta Llama |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | August 5, 2025 | April 5, 2025 |
| Context window | 131K | 1.31M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.10 | $0.175 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.50 | $0.50 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.51 | $1.276 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is gpt-oss-120b better than Llama 4 Scout for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick gpt-oss-120b for a lower cost per solved task ($0.51 against $1.276).
Which is cheaper, gpt-oss-120b or Llama 4 Scout?
gpt-oss-120b costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; Llama 4 Scout costs $0.175 and $0.50. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, gpt-oss-120b costs $0.51 and Llama 4 Scout $1.276.
Which has the bigger context window, gpt-oss-120b or Llama 4 Scout?
Llama 4 Scout, with 1.31M tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks is the gpt-oss-120b vs Llama 4 Scout comparison based on?
65 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. gpt-oss-120b's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and Llama 4 Scout's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.