gpt-oss-120b vs Muse Spark Open
gpt-oss-120b costs 8.5x less per output token than Muse Spark Open ($0.50 vs $4.25 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 9 benchmarks have a result for both.
gpt-oss-120b or Muse Spark Open: which to pick
Only Muse Spark Open has a coding score, 47.4 on the Vibe Coding Index; gpt-oss-120b has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick gpt-oss-120b for output tokens 8.5x cheaper ($0.50 vs $4.25 per million).
- Shared results
- 9
- gpt-oss-120b only
- 72
- Muse Spark Open only
- 19
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 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
Only Muse Spark Open has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only gpt-oss-120b has a AA Intelligence Index result, 11.6.
Directional only
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only gpt-oss-120b has a AA Agentic Index result, 3.7.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only gpt-oss-120b has a GPQA Diamond result, 78.5%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only gpt-oss-120b has a AIME result, 92.6%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only gpt-oss-120b has a MMLU Pro result, 79.2%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Muse Spark Open
Muse Spark Open leads, 1310 against 967.
Same board, both measured
General
Vals Index
No call
Only Muse Spark Open has a Vals Index result, 48.6%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Muse Spark Open
Muse Spark Open takes 1.05M tokens against 131K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
gpt-oss-120b
gpt-oss-120b $0.0003, Muse Spark Open $0.0034 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only gpt-oss-120b has the number, $0.51.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- gpt-oss-120b not benchmarked, Muse Spark Open 47.4 from 4 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Web design, 39.6 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Design Arena: websites: gpt-oss-120b 967 against Muse Spark Open 1310, 42.9 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- gpt-oss-120b $0.50 against Muse Spark Open $4.25 per million output tokens, 8.5x apart.
- Context window
- gpt-oss-120b takes 131K tokens, Muse Spark Open 1.05M.
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 | Muse Spark Open | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 2 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 2 | ||
| Web design | 0 | 2 | ||
| General | 0 | 1 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 9 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index02
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | 41.8% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| SWE-bench Verified | 26.0% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LiveBench coding | Not measured | 73.6% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1528 | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| AA Coding Index | 30.4 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 83.2% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 33.6% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 6.6% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 76.2% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 21.2% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 87.8% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| SciCode | 34.0% | 58.4% | Muse Spark Open |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 23.5% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| 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 | 1590.1 | Muse Spark Open |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1379 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1387 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1529 | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1495 | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| SciCode | 7.7% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 18 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 11.6 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 139.8 | 155.1 | Muse Spark Open |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 3.7 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LiveBench research | Not measured | 80.3% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| LiveBench browser | Not measured | 36.0% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | Not measured | 18.9% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 61.3% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 26.3% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 38.5% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 25.0% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 53.7% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 65.8% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| APEX-Agents | 4.4% | 33.4% | Muse Spark Open |
| METR time horizons | 56.6% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | -$22 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| BrowseComp-Plus | 67.0% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 27 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 78.5% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | Not measured | 73.7% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 78.2% | 89.0% | Muse Spark Open |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 19.6% | 43.9% | Muse Spark Open |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 75.8% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b 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 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1356 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1368 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 58.6% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 92.6% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | 94.8% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 92.0% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| AA Math Index | 93.4 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 93.4% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 88.9% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1389 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1386 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 79.2% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 75.9% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 48.8% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 58.2% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 71.6% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 91.4% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 80.8% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1382 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1388 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1355 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1359 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 967 | 1310 | Muse Spark Open |
| Design Arena: UI components | 924 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 992 | 1282 | Muse Spark Open |
| Design Arena: data viz | 987 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 901 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 962 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LiveBench design | Not measured | 60.3% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | Not measured | 48.6% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| LiveBench data analysis | Not measured | 60.2% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| IFBench | 69.0% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 52.0% | 78.3% | Muse Spark Open |
| DTBench | 76.3% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMCA | 22.1% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 44.4% | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| 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 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1318 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1274 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1375 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1351 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1385 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1353 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1331 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1282 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1370 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1389 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1343 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1353 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1340 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1319 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1306 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1292 | Not measured | Only gpt-oss-120b measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 20 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | gpt-oss-120b | Muse Spark Open | 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 Muse Spark Open |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | Meta |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | August 5, 2025 | October 15, 2026 |
| Context window | 131K | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.10 | $1.25 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.50 | $4.25 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 47.4 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 4 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.51 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is gpt-oss-120b better than Muse Spark Open for coding?
Only Muse Spark Open has a coding score, 47.4 on the Vibe Coding Index; gpt-oss-120b has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick gpt-oss-120b for output tokens 8.5x cheaper ($0.50 vs $4.25 per million).
Which is cheaper, gpt-oss-120b or Muse Spark Open?
gpt-oss-120b costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; Muse Spark Open costs $1.25 and $4.25. Cost per solved task is known for gpt-oss-120b only.
Which has the bigger context window, gpt-oss-120b or Muse Spark Open?
Muse Spark Open, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks is the gpt-oss-120b vs Muse Spark Open comparison based on?
9 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. gpt-oss-120b's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and Muse Spark Open's on 4. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.