OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b

by OpenAI Open Weight Intelligent

gpt-oss-120b is an open-weight, 117B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model from OpenAI designed for high-reasoning, agentic, and general-purpose production use cases. It activates 5.1B parameters per forward pass and is optimized...

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Specifications

Specifications for gpt-oss-120b
AttributeValue
Lab OpenAI
Tags Open Weight Intelligent
Release Date 2025-08
Context Window 131,072 tokens
Input Price / 1M $0.04
Output Price / 1M $0.18
Input Modalities Text
Output Modalities Text

Strengths

  • First open-weight release from OpenAI (Apache 2.0)
  • Efficient 117B MoE architecture (5.1B active params)
  • Strong reasoning and agentic capabilities
  • Ultra-budget pricing for self-hosted deployment

Weaknesses

  • Small active parameter count limits raw power
  • No multimodal/vision input support
  • Less polished than closed OpenAI models

Best For

  • Self-hosted production deployments
  • Cost-efficient agentic workflows
  • Research and fine-tuning
  • Budget-conscious enterprise use

In Depth: gpt-oss-120b

Summary

gpt-oss-120b is an AI model from OpenAI.

Released 2025-08. It currently appears in the Overall category on LMRank and 1 other category. It supports Text input and produces Text output, with a context window of 131,072 tokens. Input pricing is $0.04 per 1M tokens and output is $0.18 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter.

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