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Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro vs OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b ·Google vs OpenAI

Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro vs OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b — head-to-head comparison

Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro profile OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b profile All comparisons
Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro — Google
Quality
#38 of 65
64based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#84 of 353
100.9
Output tokens per second
Price
#407 of 525
$3.44
Blended per 1M tokens
In $1.25 · Out $10.00
Cache hit price
#248 of 412
$0.12
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#135 of 574
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b — OpenAI
Quality
#44 of 65
61based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#26 of 353
172.0
Output tokens per second
Price
#131 of 525
$0.26
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.15 · Out $0.60
Cache hit price
#196 of 412
$0.075
per 1M tokens (−50%)
Context
#462 of 574
131k
tokens (~200 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro scores 64 and OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b scores 61 — a 3-point lead for Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro. They share 3 published evaluations, with Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro ahead on 2 and OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b ahead on 1.

Blended pricing is $3.44 per 1M tokens for Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro and $0.26 for OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b — OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b is about 13.1× cheaper.

Throughput is 101 tokens per second for Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro and 172 for OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b, with time to first token at 7.0s and 0.7s. Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro accepts 1.05M tokens of context against 131k.

Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro is proprietary; OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 23 tracked hosts serve one or both, and 1 serve both.

Generated from tracked data on 24 Oct 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricGoogle: Gemini 2.5 ProOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Known Good Index 64 based on 4 of 7 evaluations 61 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $3.44 $0.26
Output tok/s 101 172
Context window 1.05M 131k
Providers 2 22
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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.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 2.5 ProOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Known Good Index 64 61
Coding Index 43 —
Openness Index 5 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro · marker = OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond85 / 76
Mock AIME 2024–2584 / 89
Terminal-Bench33 / 19

Right-hand figures read Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro / OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b. Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro leads on 2 of 3, OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b on 1.

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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.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 2.5 ProOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Text Arena 1,458 1,366
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,445 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.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 2.5 ProOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Input $/1M $1.25 $0.15
Output $/1M $10.00 $0.60
Blended $/1M $3.44 $0.26
Cache read $/1M $0.125 $0.075
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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.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 2.5 ProOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Context window 1.05M 131k
Max output tokens 66k 66k
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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.

MetricGoogle: Gemini 2.5 ProOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Output tokens/s 101 172
Time to first token 7.0s 0.7s
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Providers

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

23 hosts · 1 serve both
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro blendedGoogle: Gemini 2.5 Pro tok/s OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b blendedOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b tok/s
Google AI Studio $1.72 117 — —
Google · first party $3.44 106 $0.16 75
Cerebras — — $0.45 643
SambaNova — — $0.34 400
Groq — — $0.26 374
Crusoe — — $0.10 275
Parasail — — $0.26 243
Amazon Bedrock · first party — — $0.26 214
Nebius — — $0.26 206
Novita — — $0.10 196
BaseTen — — $0.20 180
Phala — — $0.26 156
AkashML — — $0.07 149
Mancer 2 — — $0.10 128
Together — — $0.26 125
Mara — — $0.30 112
DekaLLM — — $0.07 98
CoreWeave — — $0.07 89
SiliconFlow — — $0.26 80
DeepInfra — — $0.07 67
DigitalOcean — — $0.15 59
Near AI — — $0.06 53
Venice — — $0.06 34

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

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Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →