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gpt-oss-120b vs R1 Distill Llama 70B

How do these models stack up? Below is an expert side-by-side comparison of specifications, context window capacity, live pricing per million tokens, and standardized benchmark scores for gpt-oss-120b and R1 Distill Llama 70B.

OpenAI

gpt-oss-120b

gpt-oss-120b is an open-weight, 117B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model from OpenAI designed for high-reasoning, agentic, and general-purpose production use cases. It activates 5.1B parameters per forward pass and is optimized...

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DeepSeek

R1 Distill Llama 70B

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B is a distilled large language model based on [Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct](/meta-llama/llama-3.3-70b-instruct), using outputs from [DeepSeek R1](/deepseek/deepseek-r1). The model combines advanced distillation techniques to achieve high performance across...

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Technical Specifications

Specificationgpt-oss-120bR1 Distill Llama 70B
ProviderOpenAIDeepSeek
Context Window131,072 tokens128,000 tokens
Agent SuitabilityN/AN/A
Time to First Token (TTFT)N/AN/A
Deployment Modelmanaged apiself hostable
Production Stabilitystablestable
API AvailableYesYes
Released Date2025-08-052025-01-23

API Pricing Comparison

Input Price per Million Tokens

gpt-oss-120b

$0.03

R1 Distill Llama 70B

$0.80

Output Price per Million Tokens

gpt-oss-120b

$0.15

R1 Distill Llama 70B

$0.80

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Benchmark Performance Metrics

Scores show the raw performance percentages verified across key evaluation suites. Higher bars indicate superior accuracy and capability in that domain.

MMLUGeneral knowledge & multi-task understanding
N/Avs8520.0%
gpt-oss-120b
R1 Distill Llama 70B
HumanEvalPython coding & logic synthesis
N/Avs8830.0%
gpt-oss-120b
R1 Distill Llama 70B
MATHComplex mathematical problem solving
N/Avs7000.0%
gpt-oss-120b
R1 Distill Llama 70B
GPQAGraduate-level expert reasoning
N/Avs4450.0%
gpt-oss-120b
R1 Distill Llama 70B
HellaSwagCommonsense reasoning and inference
N/Avs8600.0%
gpt-oss-120b
R1 Distill Llama 70B
MT-BenchMulti-turn conversation flow quality
N/Avs905.0%
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R1 Distill Llama 70B

gpt-oss-120b Quirks & Gotchas

No developer gotchas reported.

R1 Distill Llama 70B Quirks & Gotchas

No developer gotchas reported.