Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
GPT-OSS 120B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 48 to 27. 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 reasoning, where it averages 55.2 against 30.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HumanEval, 43 to 15.
Pick GPT-OSS 120B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ministral 3 3B only becomes the better choice if its workflow or ecosystem matters more than the raw scoreboard.
GPT-OSS 120B
44.8
Ministral 3 3B
22.9
GPT-OSS 120B
28.1
Ministral 3 3B
6.2
GPT-OSS 120B
48.8
Ministral 3 3B
30.4
GPT-OSS 120B
55.2
Ministral 3 3B
30.1
GPT-OSS 120B
41.5
Ministral 3 3B
24.5
GPT-OSS 120B
79
Ministral 3 3B
67
GPT-OSS 120B
70.7
Ministral 3 3B
59.7
GPT-OSS 120B
59.5
Ministral 3 3B
36
GPT-OSS 120B is ahead overall, 48 to 27. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HumanEval, where the scores are 43 and 15.
GPT-OSS 120B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 41.5 versus 24.5. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-OSS 120B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 28.1 versus 6.2. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-OSS 120B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 59.5 versus 36. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-OSS 120B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 55.2 versus 30.1. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-OSS 120B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 44.8 versus 22.9. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-OSS 120B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 48.8 versus 30.4. Inside this category, OfficeQA Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-OSS 120B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 79 versus 67. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-OSS 120B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 70.7 versus 59.7. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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