GPT-6.1 Sol (High) vs gpt-oss-20b (High)

Which is better for the money: GPT-6.1 Sol (High) by OpenAI or gpt-oss-20b (High) by OpenAI? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-24.

Trade-off

OpenAIGPT-6.1 Sol (High)On the frontier

Intelligence: 50.20
Total cost: $521

OpenAIgpt-oss-20b (High)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 9.00
Total cost: $28.8

Verdict

Depends on your budget

GPT-6.1 Sol (High) scores 41.2 points higher (50.2 vs 9.0) but costs 18× as much to run the benchmark ($521 vs $28.8; premium vs budget cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick GPT-6.1 Sol (High) when you need intelligence above 9.0, and gpt-oss-20b (High) when 9.0 is enough.

Metric	GPT-6.1 Sol (High)	gpt-oss-20b (High)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	50.2	9.0	−82.1% gpt-oss-20b (High) is 82.1% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$521.32	$28.81	−94.5% gpt-oss-20b (High) is 94.5% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	43.44s	16.79s	−61.3% gpt-oss-20b (High) is 61.3% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$2.00 / $10.0	$0.05 / $0.22
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gpt-oss-20b (High) vs GPT-6.1 Sol (High): 82.1% less intelligence, 94.5% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 61.3% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

GPT-6.1 Sol (High) is on today's frontier: nothing is both smarter and cheaper.
gpt-oss-20b (High) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Low) scores 21.50 for $10.6.

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