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-20B is an open-weight large language model with 20 billion parameters from OpenAI's open-source model initiative. It targets deployments requiring a smaller, efficient model that can run on consumer or mid-tier hardware while maintaining strong reasoning and coding capabilities relative to its size.
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GPT-5 Codex
OpenAI
2025-08

GPT-OSS-20B
OpenAI
2025-08-05
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-5 Codex
GPT-OSS-20B
Hugging Face
GPT-5 Codex
GPT-OSS-20B
GPT-5 Codex
GPT-OSS-20B