The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
deepseek-r1 vs OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b ·DeepSeek vs OpenAI

deepseek-r1 vs OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b — head-to-head comparison

deepseek-r1 profile OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b profile All comparisons
deepseek-r1 — DeepSeek
Quality
#25 of 61
68based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
unranked
Output tokens per second
Price
unranked
Blended per 1M tokens
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
unranked
tokens
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-r1 scores 68 and OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b scores 61 — a 7-point lead for deepseek-r1. They share 2 published evaluations, with deepseek-r1 ahead on 0 and OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b ahead on 2.

Published pricing is tracked for OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b only, at $0.07 per 1M tokens blended.

deepseek-r1 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted); OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 17 tracked hosts serve one or both.

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

At a glance
Metricdeepseek-r1OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Known Good Index 68 based on 3 of 6 evaluations 61 based on 3 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.07
Output tok/s 172
Context window 131k
Providers 0 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-r1OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Known Good Index 68 61
Mathematics Index 74 89
Science Index 69 77
Reasoning Index 77
Agentic Index 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-r1 · marker = OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond69 / 76
MATH / AIME53 / 89

Right-hand figures read deepseek-r1 / OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b. deepseek-r1 leads on 0 of 2, OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b on 2.

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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-r1OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Text Arena 1,373 1,366
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,398 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-r1OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Input $/1M $0.04
Output $/1M $0.17
Blended $/1M $0.07
Cache read $/1M $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-r1OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Context window 131k
Max output tokens 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-r1OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Output tokens/s 172
Time to first token 0.7s
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Providers

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

17 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider deepseek-r1 blendeddeepseek-r1 tok/s OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b blendedOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b tok/s
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
Amazon Bedrock · first party $0.26 166
Together $0.26 111
Google · first party $0.16 85
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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