Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-5 Codex, released by OpenAI in August 2025, is a coding-specialized large language model from the GPT-5 family engineered for software engineering, code generation, and agentic development workflows. It builds on GPT-5's architecture with optimizations targeting multi-file code editing, test generation, and automated debugging. GPT-5 Codex targets developers and agentic coding tools requiring a model tuned specifically for programming tasks.
OpenAI
GPT-OSS-120B, released by OpenAI in August 2025, is an open-weight large language model with 120 billion parameters distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. It represents OpenAI's entry into the open-source model space, enabling developers to self-host and fine-tune a GPT-5-generation-class model. GPT-OSS-120B targets research applications, on-premises deployments, and custom fine-tuning workflows requiring a large open-weight base model.
Launched on the same date

GPT-5 Codex
OpenAI
2025-08

GPT-OSS-120B
OpenAI
2025-08
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5 Codex
GPT-OSS-120B
Hugging Face
GPT-5 Codex
GPT-OSS-120B
GPT-5 Codex
GPT-OSS-120B