OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b

● Excellent

by OpenAI Open Weight Intelligent Rank #53 of 80

8.2
/ 10

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 OpenAI: gpt-oss-120b
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Lab OpenAI
Tags Open Weight Intelligent
Overall Score 8.2/10
Release Date 2025-08
Context Window 131,072 tokens
Input Price / 1M $0.04
Output Price / 1M $0.18
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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

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