1-bit Bonsai 4B vs GPT-OSS 120B

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

1-bit Bonsai 4B· GPT-OSS 120B

Quick Verdict

Pick GPT-OSS 120B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. 1-bit Bonsai 4B only becomes the better choice if mathematics is the priority.

GPT-OSS 120B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 51 to 44. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

GPT-OSS 120B's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 51.6 against 28.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 28.7% to 80.9%. 1-bit Bonsai 4B does hit back in mathematics, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

GPT-OSS 120B gives you the larger context window at 128K, compared with 32K for 1-bit Bonsai 4B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/A262 t/s
TTFTN/A0.79s
Context32K128K

Decision framing

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Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

Benchmark1-bit Bonsai 4BGPT-OSS 120B
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.043%
BrowseComp50%
OSWorld-Verified43%
Coding
HumanEval43%
SWE-bench Verified29%
LiveCodeBench25%
SWE-bench Pro31%
SWE-Rebench33.3%
React Native Evals66.4%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro42%
OfficeQA Pro57%
ReasoningGPT-OSS 120B wins
MuSR41.4%47%
BBH73%
LongBench v258%
MRCRv259%
KnowledgeGPT-OSS 120B wins
GPQA28.7%80.9%
MMLU90%
SuperGPQA48%
MMLU-Pro90%
HLE5%
FrontierScience49%
SimpleQA49%
Instruction FollowingGPT-OSS 120B wins
IFEval69.6%79%
Multilingual
MGSM72%
MMLU-ProX70%
Mathematics1-bit Bonsai 4B wins
MATH-50065.8%71%
AIME 202351%
AIME 202453%
AIME 202552%
HMMT Feb 202347%
HMMT Feb 202449%
HMMT Feb 202548%
BRUMO 202550%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or GPT-OSS 120B?

GPT-OSS 120B is ahead overall, 51 to 44. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 28.7% and 80.9%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or GPT-OSS 120B?

GPT-OSS 120B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 51.6 versus 28.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or GPT-OSS 120B?

1-bit Bonsai 4B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 65.8 versus 56.1. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or GPT-OSS 120B?

GPT-OSS 120B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 55.4 versus 41.4. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or GPT-OSS 120B?

GPT-OSS 120B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 79 versus 69.6. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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