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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs gpt-oss-120b

2 vs 0 benchmarks won

Anthropic
Claude Haiku 4.5
OpenAI
gpt-oss-120b
Overview
CompanyAnthropicOpenAI
Release dateOct 15 2025Aug 5 2025
Model type
Open sourceNoYes
Specifications
Parameters
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
73%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
73.3%
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapgpt-oss-120b shipped 71 days before Claude Haiku 4.5

Which is better: Claude Haiku 4.5 or gpt-oss-120b?

Claude Haiku 4.5 leads gpt-oss-120b on 2 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). gpt-oss-120b shipped 71 days before Claude Haiku 4.5, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

gpt-oss-120b is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude Haiku 4.5 is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Claude Haiku 4.5 released?
Claude Haiku 4.5 was released by Anthropic on Oct 15 2025.
When was gpt-oss-120b released?
gpt-oss-120b was released by OpenAI on Aug 5 2025.
Is Claude Haiku 4.5 or gpt-oss-120b open source?
gpt-oss-120b is an open-source / open-weight model released by OpenAI. Claude Haiku 4.5 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic.

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