The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 vs OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b ·Anthropic vs OpenAI

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 vs OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b — head-to-head comparison

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 profile OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b profile All comparisons
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 — Anthropic
Quality
#4 of 61
94based on 5 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#158 of 316
52.4
Output tokens per second
Price
#314 of 340
$10.00
Blended per 1M tokens
In $5.00 · Out $25.00
Cache hit price
#185 of 206
$0.50
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#83 of 345
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b — OpenAI
Quality
#33 of 61
61based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#10 of 316
172.2
Output tokens per second
Price
#33 of 340
$0.07
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.04 · Out $0.17
Cache hit price
#25 of 206
$0.015
per 1M tokens (−59%)
Context
#238 of 345
131k
tokens (~200 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 scores 94 and OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b scores 61 — a 33-point lead for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7. They share 3 published evaluations, with Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 ahead on 3 and OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $10.00 per 1M tokens for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 and $0.07 for OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b — OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b is about 142.3× cheaper.

Throughput is 52 tokens per second for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 and 172 for OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b, with time to first token at 1.4s and 0.7s. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 accepts 1.00M tokens of context against 131k.

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 is proprietary; OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 19 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 2 serve both.

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At a glance
MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Known Good Index 94 based on 5 of 6 evaluations 61 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $10.00 $0.07
Output tok/s 52 172
Context window 1.00M 131k
Providers 4 17
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

IndicesComponents
Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Known Good Index 94 61
Coding Index 100
Mathematics Index 98 89
Science Index 95 77
Reasoning Index 86
Agentic Index 100 18
Openness Index 5 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 · marker = OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond90 / 76
MATH / AIME98 / 89
Terminal-Bench90 / 19

Right-hand figures read Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 / OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 leads on 3 of 3, OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b on 0.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Text Arena 1,482 1,366
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,494 1,352
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Per token typeCache discount
Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Input $/1M $5.00 $0.04
Output $/1M $25.00 $0.17
Blended $/1M $10.00 $0.07
Cache read $/1M $0.500 $0.015
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Context window 1.00M 131k
Max output tokens 128k 131k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Output tokens/s 52 172
Time to first token 1.4s 0.7s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

19 hosts · 2 serve both
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 blendedAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 tok/s OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b blendedOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b tok/s
Google · first party $10.00 70 $0.16 85
Anthropic · first party $10.00 45
Amazon Bedrock · first party $10.00 17 $0.26 166
Azure · first party $10.00
Cerebras $0.45 495
Groq $0.26 411
SambaNova $0.34 306
BaseTen $0.20 285
Nebius $0.26 281
DeepInfra $0.07 246
Parasail $0.26 207
Mara $0.30 181
Together $0.26 111
Phala $0.26 82
DigitalOcean $0.17 62
Novita $0.10 42
CoreWeave $0.07 41
Mancer 2 $0.17 41
SiliconFlow $0.15 26

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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