command-r vs gpt-oss-120b

Capability for the money

Not the same tier: gpt-oss-120b leads command-r by 83.0 points on coding (LiveCodeBench), for 1.7× the price.

1. Coding

   writing and fixing code

   LiveCodeBench
   command-r4.8%

   gpt-oss-120b87.8%

   gpt-oss-120b +83.0

2. Hard reasoning

   graduate-level science and multi-step analysis

   GPQA Diamond
   command-r28.4%

   gpt-oss-120b78.2%

   gpt-oss-120b +49.8

Averaged over the benchmarks both models sat, gpt-oss-120b returns 184.4 points of pass rate per dollar of blended price against 63.2 — the ratio that decides whether the dearer model earns its rate.

Each figure is a pass rate: the share of that test set the model answered correctly, measured by a third party rather than self-reported by the lab. Rows are different tests of different difficulty, so compare a model against the other model, not one row against the next. No published following instructions or tool use score for one of these models, so those lenses are omitted. And a benchmark is not your workload — it narrows the shortlist, it does not pick for you.