gpt-oss-120b
Activegpt-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...
Overview
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...
History
gpt-oss-120b became available via the OpenAI API on 2025-08-05.
Training & availability
Training data has a knowledge cutoff of 2024-06-30 — information about events after that date is unlikely to appear in the model's responses. OpenAI has not released the underlying model weights — access is via their hosted API only.
Capabilities
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Context window: 131K tokens.
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Input modalities: text.
Recommended for: fast, cheap.
Limitations
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The knowledge cutoff is 21 months old — this model will not know about recent events, releases, or API changes.
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Text-only — cannot process images, audio, or video inputs.
Pricing
- Input: $0.0390 per 1M tokens
- Output: $0.1900 per 1M tokens
Use the cost calculator above to estimate monthly spend for your workload.
Quick start
Minimal example using the openai API. Copy, paste, replace the key.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(api_key="sk-...")
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="gpt-oss-120b",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum computing in one sentence."}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)Cost calculator
Estimate your monthly bill. Presets are typical workload sizes.
Providers & performance
18 providersMulti-provider inference routes for this model — sorted by throughput. Latency is time-to-first-token; throughput is output tokens per second. Data from OpenRouter, measured over the last 30 minutes.
| Provider | Throughput | Latency (TTFT) | Input $ / 1M | Output $ / 1M | Context | Quant | Supports |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cerebras | 795tok/s | 284ms | $0.35 | $0.75 | 131K | fp16 | tools · json |
| Groq | 376tok/s | 240ms | $0.15 | $0.6 | 131K | — | tools · json |
| Amazon Bedrock | 233tok/s |
Popularity
Signals from open-source communities — not a quality measure, but useful for gauging adoption among developers.
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Score | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Aider PolyglotCoding | 41.8% pass@2 | Third-party Papers With Code |
Integrations & tooling support
- Tool calling
- Not supported
- Structured outputs
- Not supported
Price vs quality
Cheap and cheerful — useful for high-volume tasks.
- Quality percentile
- 28.6%
- Effective price
- $0.152/1M
- Pricing breakdown
- $0.039/1M in
$0.19/1M out
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