The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
gemini-3-pro-preview vs OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b ·Google vs OpenAI

gemini-3-pro-preview vs OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b — head-to-head comparison

gemini-3-pro-preview profile OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b profile All comparisons
gemini-3-pro-preview — Google
Quality
#14 of 61
83based on 5 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, gemini-3-pro-preview scores 83 and OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b scores 61 — a 22-point lead for gemini-3-pro-preview. They share 3 published evaluations, with gemini-3-pro-preview ahead on 3 and OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b ahead on 0.

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

gemini-3-pro-preview is proprietary; 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
Metricgemini-3-pro-previewOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Known Good Index 83 based on 5 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.

Metricgemini-3-pro-previewOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Known Good Index 83 61
Coding Index 74
Mathematics Index 91 89
Science Index 98 77
Reasoning Index 89
Agentic Index 74 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 = gemini-3-pro-preview · marker = OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond93 / 76
MATH / AIME91 / 89
Terminal-Bench62 / 19

Right-hand figures read gemini-3-pro-preview / OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b. gemini-3-pro-preview 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.

Metricgemini-3-pro-previewOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Text Arena 1,366
Text Arena (style controlled) 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.

Metricgemini-3-pro-previewOpenAI: 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.

Metricgemini-3-pro-previewOpenAI: 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.

Metricgemini-3-pro-previewOpenAI: 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 gemini-3-pro-preview blendedgemini-3-pro-preview 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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