GPT-OSS 20B vs Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

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

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

GPT-OSS 20B· Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.5-122B-A10B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-OSS 20B only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 71 to 35. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 76.3 against 14.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is LiveCodeBench, 11% to 78.9%.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is the reasoning model in the pair, while GPT-OSS 20B 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. Qwen3.5-122B-A10B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 128K for GPT-OSS 20B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Free*
Speed313 t/sN/A
TTFT0.65sN/A
Context128K262K

Decision framing

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BenchmarkGPT-OSS 20BQwen3.5-122B-A10B
AgenticQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
Terminal-Bench 2.035%49.4%
OSWorld-Verified31%58%
BrowseComp63.8%
tau2-bench79.5%
CodingQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
HumanEval23%
SWE-bench Verified14%72%
LiveCodeBench11%78.9%
SWE-bench Pro18%
React Native Evals64.3%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MMMU-Pro31%76.9%
OfficeQA Pro42%
ReasoningQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MuSR27%
LongBench v248%60.2%
MRCRv248%
KnowledgeQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MMLU85.3%
GPQA30%86.6%
SuperGPQA28%67.1%
MMLU-Pro53%86.7%
HLE1%
FrontierScience34%
SimpleQA29%
Instruction Following
IFEval93.4%
MultilingualQwen3.5-122B-A10B wins
MGSM61%
MMLU-ProX59%82.2%
Mathematics
AIME 202331%
AIME 202433%
AIME 202532%
HMMT Feb 202327%
HMMT Feb 202429%
HMMT Feb 202528%
BRUMO 202530%
MATH-50059%
Frequently Asked Questions (7)

Which is better, GPT-OSS 20B or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is ahead overall, 71 to 35. The biggest single separator in this matchup is LiveCodeBench, where the scores are 11% and 78.9%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, GPT-OSS 20B or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 81.6 versus 28.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, GPT-OSS 20B or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 76.3 versus 14.4. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, GPT-OSS 20B or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 60.2 versus 42.4. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, GPT-OSS 20B or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 56 versus 33.1. Inside this category, OSWorld-Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, GPT-OSS 20B or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.9 versus 36. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, GPT-OSS 20B or Qwen3.5-122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 82.2 versus 59.7. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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