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gemini-2.0-flash-001 vs OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b ·Google DeepMind,Google vs OpenAI

gemini-2.0-flash-001 vs OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b — head-to-head comparison

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gemini-2.0-flash-001 — Google DeepMind,Google
Quality
#45 of 65
61based on 4 of 7 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
#44 of 65
62based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#9 of 338
166.7
Output tokens per second
Price
#19 of 442
$0.07
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.04 · Out $0.17
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
#363 of 476
131k
tokens (~200 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, gemini-2.0-flash-001 scores 61 and OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b scores 62, which puts them level. They share 2 published evaluations, with gemini-2.0-flash-001 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.

gemini-2.0-flash-001 is proprietary; OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 18 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 4 Sep 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
Metricgemini-2.0-flash-001OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Known Good Index 61 based on 4 of 7 evaluations 62 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.07
Output tok/s 167
Context window 131k
Providers 0 18
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

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

Metricgemini-2.0-flash-001OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Known Good Index 61 62
Mathematics Index 57
Reasoning Index 57
Openness Index 5 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = gemini-2.0-flash-001 · marker = OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond64 / 76
Mock AIME 2024–2531 / 89

Right-hand figures read gemini-2.0-flash-001 / OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b. gemini-2.0-flash-001 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.

Metricgemini-2.0-flash-001OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Text Arena 1,354 1,366
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,360 1,352
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

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.

Metricgemini-2.0-flash-001OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Input $/1M $0.04
Output $/1M $0.17
Blended $/1M $0.07
Cache read $/1M
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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.

Metricgemini-2.0-flash-001OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Context window 131k
Max output tokens 118k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

Metricgemini-2.0-flash-001OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Output tokens/s 167
Time to first token 0.6s
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Providers

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

18 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider gemini-2.0-flash-001 blendedgemini-2.0-flash-001 tok/s OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b blendedOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b tok/s
Cerebras $0.45 788
Groq $0.26 344
Amazon Bedrock · first party $0.26 330
SambaNova $0.34 319
Nebius $0.26 247
BaseTen $0.20 187
Mara $0.30 150
Google · first party $0.16 142
DeepInfra $0.07 130
Parasail $0.26 107
Novita $0.10 102
Mancer 2 $0.17 95
Phala $0.26 85
Together $0.26 60
CoreWeave $0.07 57
AkashML $0.07 43
DigitalOcean $0.14 27
SiliconFlow $0.15 18

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

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