The Known Good Updated 29 Jul 2026
DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B vs OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b ·DeepSeek vs OpenAI

DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B vs OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b — head-to-head comparison

DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B profile OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b profile All comparisons
DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B — DeepSeek
Quality
#39 of 62
62based on 4 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#268 of 317
25.3
Output tokens per second
Price
#187 of 370
$0.80
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.80 · Out $0.80
Cache hit price
unranked
—
per 1M tokens
Context
#368 of 375
8k
tokens (~13 pages)
OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b — OpenAI
Quality
#42 of 62
61based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#13 of 317
144.7
Output tokens per second
Price
#35 of 370
$0.07
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.04 · Out $0.17
Cache hit price
#28 of 238
$0.015
per 1M tokens (−59%)
Context
#265 of 375
131k
tokens (~200 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B scores 62 and OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b scores 61 — a 1-point lead for DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B. They share 2 published evaluations, with DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B ahead on 0 and OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b ahead on 2.

Blended pricing is $0.80 per 1M tokens for DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B and $0.07 for OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b — OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b is about 11.4× cheaper.

Throughput is 25 tokens per second for DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B and 145 for OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b, with time to first token at 0.8s and 0.9s. DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B accepts 8k tokens of context against 131k.

DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B 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, and 1 serve both.

Generated from tracked data on 29 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
MetricDeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70BOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Known Good Index 62 based on 4 of 7 evaluations 61 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $0.80 $0.07
Output tok/s 25 145
Context window 8k 131k
Providers 1 17
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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.

MetricDeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70BOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Known Good Index 62 61
Mathematics Index 71 89
Reasoning Index 59 —
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 Distill Llama 70B · marker = OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond56 / 76
Mock AIME 2024–2551 / 89

Right-hand figures read DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B / OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b. DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B 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: R1 Distill Llama 70BOpenAI: 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

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: R1 Distill Llama 70BOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Input $/1M $0.80 $0.04
Output $/1M $0.80 $0.17
Blended $/1M $0.80 $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: R1 Distill Llama 70BOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Context window 8k 131k
Max output tokens 8k 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: R1 Distill Llama 70BOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
Output tokens/s 25 145
Time to first token 0.8s 0.9s
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Providers

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

17 hosts · 1 serve both
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider DeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B blendedDeepSeek: R1 Distill Llama 70B tok/s OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b blendedOpenAI: gpt-oss-120b tok/s
Novita $0.80 32 $0.10 64
Cerebras — — $0.45 501
SambaNova — — $0.34 367
Groq — — $0.26 352
Amazon Bedrock · first party — — $0.26 342
Nebius — — $0.26 231
DeepInfra — — $0.07 196
Google · first party — — $0.16 177
BaseTen — — $0.20 171
Mara — — $0.30 146
Together — — $0.26 114
Parasail — — $0.26 101
Phala — — $0.26 82
Mancer 2 — — $0.17 40
CoreWeave — — $0.07 32
DigitalOcean — — $0.17 22
SiliconFlow — — $0.15 12

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

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