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Magistral Small vs gpt-oss-120b

Mistral
Magistral Small
OpenAI
gpt-oss-120b
Overview
CompanyMistralOpenAI
Release dateJun 10 2025Aug 5 2025
AccessProprietaryOpen Weight
Benchmarks
Nonsense detection
BullshitBench v2
11%
Timeline
Release gapMagistral Small shipped 56 days before gpt-oss-120b

Which is better: Magistral Small or gpt-oss-120b?

Magistral Small and gpt-oss-120b don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Magistral Small shipped 56 days before gpt-oss-120b, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Magistral Small is proprietary, while gpt-oss-120b is open weight.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Magistral Small and gpt-oss-120b don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.

Frequently asked questions

Magistral Small was released by Mistral on Jun 10 2025.

gpt-oss-120b was released by OpenAI on Aug 5 2025.

Magistral Small is a proprietary model released by Mistral. gpt-oss-120b is an open weight model released by OpenAI.

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