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gpt-oss-20b

ECI#121
138
OpenAI
Aug. 5, 2025
Open weights

gpt-oss-20b is an open-weights model from OpenAI, released August 5, 2025. It has an ECI score of 138 and ranks 121st of 249 tracked models. At the time of its release, it ranked 29th of 156 tracked models. At $0.04/Mtok for input tokens and $0.15/Mtok for output tokens, it is less expensive per token than similarly-capable models.

Input price$0.04 / 1M tokens
Output price$0.15 / 1M tokens
Parameters2.1e10
Training compute5.5e23 FLOP

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ECI scoreBest score 166
138137140137
Ranking#121#125#107#124
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Games
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Mathematics
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025Best score 100.0%
65.3%
38.3%
76.9%
62.2%
Science
CritPtBest score 32.3%
1.4%
n/a
0.3%
n/a
SciCodeBest score 62.0%
34.4%
n/a
39.8%
n/a
GPQA DiamondBest score 95.8%
60.8%
66.9%
77.0%
55.6%
Software engineering
ALE-BenchBest score 2176.9
566.0558.1
WeirdML (v2)Best score 92.9%
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39.0%
43.7%
n/a

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