Compare/Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) vs gpt-oss-20B (low)

Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)vsgpt-oss-20B (low)

Side-by-side comparison of pricing, 12 benchmarks, and generation speed.

Anthropic

Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)

Input
$0/M
Output
$0/M
Speed
TTFT
OpenAI

gpt-oss-20B (low)

Input
$0.07/M
Output
$0.2/M
Speed
254 tok/s
TTFT
0.41s

Winner by Category

Cheaper
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)
Faster (tok/s)
gpt-oss-20B (low)
Lower Latency
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)
Benchmarks (3-8)
gpt-oss-20B (low)

Pricing Comparison

MetricClaude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)gpt-oss-20B (low)
Input ($/M tokens)$0$0.07
Output ($/M tokens)$0$0.2
Cost for 1M input + 100K output tokens:
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)$0.00
gpt-oss-20B (low)$0.09

Speed Comparison

Output Speed (tokens/s) — higher is better
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)
gpt-oss-20B (low)
254 tok/s
Time to First Token (seconds) — lower is better
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)
gpt-oss-20B (low)
0.41s

Benchmark Comparison

Data from Artificial Analysis API — 12 benchmarks

Intelligence Index
20.8
Coding Index
52.514.4
Math Index
62.3
GPQA Diamond
61.1%
MMLU-Pro
71.8%
LiveCodeBench
65.2%
AIME 2025
62.3%
MATH-500
Humanity's Last Exam
5.1%
SciCode
54.5%34.0%
IFBench
57.8%
TerminalBench
51.5%4.5%
Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort)3 wins
8 winsgpt-oss-20B (low)

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) or gpt-oss-20B (low)?

Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) is cheaper overall. Its blended price (3:1 input/output ratio) is $0.00/M tokens vs $0.10/M for gpt-oss-20B (low).

Which model performs better on benchmarks?

gpt-oss-20B (low) wins 8 out of 12 benchmarks compared to 3 for Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort). See the detailed benchmark chart above for per-category results.

Which is faster for real-time applications?

gpt-oss-20B (low) generates tokens faster at 254 tok/s vs 0 tok/s. Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) also has lower time-to-first-token (0.00s vs 0.41s).

When should I use Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) vs gpt-oss-20B (low)?

Choose based on your priorities: Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) for lower cost, gpt-oss-20B (low) for stronger benchmark performance, and gpt-oss-20B (low) for faster generation. For latency-sensitive apps, check the TTFT comparison above.