Composer 2 vs GPT-OSS 120B

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

Composer 2 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 62 to 49. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Composer 2's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 61.7 against 44.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is React Native Evals, 97.2% to 67.1%.

Composer 2 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.50 input / $2.50 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for GPT-OSS 120B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Composer 2 is the reasoning model in the pair, while GPT-OSS 120B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Composer 2 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for GPT-OSS 120B.

Quick Verdict

Pick Composer 2 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-OSS 120B only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Agentic

Composer 2

Composer 2

61.7

GPT-OSS 120B

44.8

61.7%
Terminal-Bench 2.0
43%
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BrowseComp
50%
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OSWorld-Verified
43%

Coding

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73.7%
SWE Multilingual
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97.2%
React Native Evals
67.1%
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HumanEval
43%
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SWE-bench Verified
29%
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LiveCodeBench
25%
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SWE-bench Pro
31%
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SWE-Rebench
33.3%

Multimodal & Grounded

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MMMU-Pro
42%
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OfficeQA Pro
57%

Reasoning

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MuSR
47%
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BBH
73%
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LongBench v2
58%
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MRCRv2
59%

Knowledge

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MMLU
90%
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GPQA
80.9%
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SuperGPQA
48%
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MMLU-Pro
90%
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HLE
5%
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FrontierScience
49%
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SimpleQA
49%

Instruction Following

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IFEval
79%

Multilingual

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MGSM
72%
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MMLU-ProX
70%

Mathematics

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AIME 2023
51%
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AIME 2024
53%
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AIME 2025
52%
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HMMT Feb 2023
47%
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HMMT Feb 2024
49%
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HMMT Feb 2025
48%
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BRUMO 2025
50%
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MATH-500
71%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Composer 2 or GPT-OSS 120B?

Composer 2 is ahead overall, 62 to 49. The biggest single separator in this matchup is React Native Evals, where the scores are 97.2% and 67.1%.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Composer 2 or GPT-OSS 120B?

Composer 2 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 61.7 versus 44.8. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 18, 2026

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