Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs gpt-oss-120b
Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet | OpenAI gpt-oss-120b | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Release date | Feb 24 2025 | Aug 5 2025 |
| Access | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Benchmarks | ||
Nonsense detection BullshitBench v2Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | 49%Best | 11% |
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 62.3% | — |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 68% | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Claude 3.7 Sonnet shipped 162 days before gpt-oss-120b | |
Which is better: Claude 3.7 Sonnet or gpt-oss-120b?
Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads gpt-oss-120b on 1 of the 1 benchmark they both report (BullshitBench v2). Claude 3.7 Sonnet shipped 162 days before gpt-oss-120b, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is proprietary, while gpt-oss-120b is open weight.
On BullshitBench v2, Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads at 49% vs gpt-oss-120b at 11%.
Frequently asked questions
Claude 3.7 Sonnet was released by Anthropic on Feb 24 2025.
gpt-oss-120b was released by OpenAI on Aug 5 2025.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. gpt-oss-120b is an open weight model released by OpenAI.
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