gpt-oss-20b reportedly crushes Opus on a real task, at 1,000x lower cost
scaling01 · x · 2026-08-04
- The poster argues that model generality may be overrated without continual learning.
- In a real task, they found gpt-oss-20b to be far better than Opus — “not even close” — while also claiming it is around 1,000× cheaper, faster, and more reliable for that use case.
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