Quality
Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side
Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.
| Metric | OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini | OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| Known Good Index | 67 | 61 |
| Coding Index | 50 | — |
| Mathematics Index | 93 | 89 |
| Reasoning Index | 57 | — |
| Agentic Index | 50 | 18 |
| Openness Index | 5 | 60 |
Quality Breakdown
Every evaluation both models report a published score for
Bar = OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini · marker = OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)
Right-hand figures read OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini / OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b. OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini leads on 1 of 3, OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b on 2.
Arena Elo
Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes
Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.
| Metric | OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini | OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| Text Arena | — | 1,366 |
| Text Arena (style controlled) | — | 1,352 |
Price & Cost
Published API pricing by token type
USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.
| Metric | OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini | OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| Input $/1M | $0.25 | $0.04 |
| Output $/1M | $2.00 | $0.17 |
| Blended $/1M | $0.69 | $0.07 |
| Cache read $/1M | $0.025 | $0.015 |
Context Window
Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted
Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.
| Metric | OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini | OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| Context window | 400k | 131k |
| Max output tokens | 128k | 131k |
Speed & Latency
Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers
Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.
| Metric | OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini | OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b |
|---|---|---|
| Output tokens/s | 83 | 145 |
| Time to first token | 4.5s | 0.9s |
Providers
Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed
| Provider | OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini blended | OpenAI: GPT-5 Mini tok/s | OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b blended | OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI · first party | $0.34 | 103 | — | — |
| Azure · first party | $0.69 | 76 | — | — |
| 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 |
| Novita | — | — | $0.10 | 64 |
| 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.