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Claude Sonnet 4.6vsgpt-oss-20b

Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has the larger context window (1M tokens).

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Shared benchmarks
4 – 0
Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads
Cheaper per token
list price, input + output
Larger context
Claude Sonnet 4.6
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 94.2446%
Anthropic · OpenAI
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic · released 2026-02-17
textvision
Context
1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$3
Output /1M
$15
Cached /1M
$0.3
Scores
19 · 8 core
gpt-oss-20b
OpenAI · released 2025-08-05
text
Context
131K
Max out
131K
Input /1M
Output /1M
Cached /1M
Scores
6 · 5 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6gpt-oss-20bΔEdge
Reported by both · 4
SWE-bench Verified79.6% 60.7% +18.9 ptClaude Sonnet 4.6
GPQA Diamond89.9% 71.5% +18.4 ptClaude Sonnet 4.6
LMArena Elo1458.3 1287.3 +171Claude Sonnet 4.6
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)85.8% epoch65.3% epoch+20.5 ptClaude Sonnet 4.6
Only Claude Sonnet 4.6 reports · 14
Humanity's Last Exam (no tools)33.2% not reported
ARC-AGI-2 (Verified)58.3% not reported
GDPval-AA1633 not reported
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)49% not reported
MCP Atlas61.3% not reported
MMMLU89.3% not reported
MMMU-Pro (no tools)74.5% not reported
MMMU-Pro (with tools)75.6% not reported
OSWorld-Verified72.5% not reported
SimpleQA Verified35.5% epochnot reported
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run)75.2% epochnot reported
Tau2-bench Retail91.7% not reported
Tau2-bench Telecom97.9% not reported
Terminal-Bench 2.059.1% not reported
Only gpt-oss-20b reports · 1
AIME 2025not reported89.2% matharena
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Sonnet 4.6 minus gpt-oss-20b in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecClaude Sonnet 4.6gpt-oss-20bEdge
Context window1M tokens131K tokensClaude Sonnet 4.6
Max output128K tokens131K tokensgpt-oss-20b
Input price / 1M$3
Output price / 1M$15
Cached input / 1M$0.3
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$18
Modalitiestext · visiontextClaude Sonnet 4.6
Released2026-02-172025-08-05
Cited benchmark scores196
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