The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro vs OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b ·DeepSeek vs OpenAI

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro vs OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b — head-to-head comparison

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro profile OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b profile All comparisons
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro — DeepSeek
Quality
#6 of 61
93based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#182 of 316
45.2
Output tokens per second
Price
#145 of 340
$0.54
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.43 · Out $0.87
Cache hit price
#12 of 206
$0.004
per 1M tokens (−99%)
Context
#25 of 345
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 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, DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro scores 93 and OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b scores 61 — a 32-point lead for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro. They share 2 published evaluations, with DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro ahead on 2 and OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b ahead on 0.

Blended pricing is $0.54 per 1M tokens for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro and $0.07 for OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b — OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b is about 7.7× cheaper.

Throughput is 45 tokens per second for DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro and 172 for OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b, with time to first token at 2.0s and 0.7s. DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro accepts 1.05M tokens of context against 131k.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted); OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 27 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 8 serve both.

Generated from tracked data on 25 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 ProOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Known Good Index 93 based on 3 of 6 evaluations 61 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.54 $0.07
Output tok/s 45 172
Context window 1.05M 131k
Providers 18 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.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 ProOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Known Good Index 93 61
Mathematics Index 97 89
Science Index 94 77
Agentic Index 89 18
Openness Index 60 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro · marker = OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond90 / 76
MATH / AIME97 / 89

Right-hand figures read DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro / OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b. DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro leads on 2 of 2, 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.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 ProOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Text Arena 1,449 1,366
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,457 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.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 ProOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Input $/1M $0.43 $0.04
Output $/1M $0.87 $0.17
Blended $/1M $0.54 $0.07
Cache read $/1M $0.004 $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.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 ProOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Context window 1.05M 131k
Max output tokens 384k 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.

MetricDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 ProOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Output tokens/s 45 172
Time to first token 2.0s 0.7s
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Providers

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

27 hosts · 8 serve both
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro blendedDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro tok/s OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b blendedOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b tok/s
BaseTen $2.17 110 $0.20 285
Fireworks $2.17 66
Novita $1.46 66 $0.10 42
DeepInfra $1.62 65 $0.07 246
GMICloud $0.85 62
Venice $2.06 61
Baidu · first party $0.78 58
Together $2.17 53 $0.26 111
Alibaba · first party $1.77 52
AtlasCloud $2.10 46
Wafer $1.50 45
DeepSeek · first party $0.54 44
SiliconFlow $1.91 41 $0.15 26
StreamLake $0.84 41
CoreWeave $2.17 28 $0.07 41
Ionstream $1.41 20
DigitalOcean $1.74 6 $0.17 62
Parasail $2.17 $0.26 207
Cerebras $0.45 495
Groq $0.26 411
SambaNova $0.34 306
Nebius $0.26 281
Mara $0.30 181
Amazon Bedrock · first party $0.26 166
Google · first party $0.16 85
Phala $0.26 82
Mancer 2 $0.17 41

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

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