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gpt-oss-120b

gpt-oss-120b is a model from OpenAI, run through Amazon Bedrock. It places 3= of 14 on the Hurdle Index, and falls below the 90% bar on pay-gap reasoning.

Lab
OpenAI
Called as
openai.gpt-oss-120b-1:0
Price, per million tokens
$0.15 in, $0.6 out
Tokens per task
1,517 read, 11,557 written
Output limit
32,000 tokens
Run
23 October 2026, 120 attempts

Hurdle Index

80.1%75.2% to 84.3%. Place 3= of 14.

Cost per task

$0.00728th cheapest of 14. List price of the tokens used.

Time per task

82 s11th fastest of 14. Wall-clock time of each call.

On each benchmark

BenchmarkMean, 95% intervalPlaceEvery runBest of 3Cost per taskCut offBar
Pay-gap reasoning80.1% 75.2% to 84.3%3= of 1464.6%93.1%$0.0072noneBelow

Every attempt

Pay-gap reasoning: 40 tasks, three attempts each, one cell per attempt. White is a perfect answer, black is none of it right.

Attempt 1
Attempt 2
Attempt 3

Where it misses

The share of each kind of rubric line it got wrong, across every attempt.

Who is in scope14.2%
Mean hourly gap12.5%
Median hourly gap10.0%
Variable pay23.6%
Quartile pay bands21.7%
Gaps by category28.4%
Joint assessment trigger22.5%

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