gpt-oss-120b

Name: gpt-oss-120b
Author: OpenAI

Reviewed 2026-07-24

OpenAIopenai/gpt-oss-120b

Context: 131K
Price: $0.037/$0.17
Tooling: 4/5
Deploy: Cloud API

Best for

Agentic workflows and tool calling
Writing and editing code
Complex reasoning and analysis
Cost-sensitive, high-volume workloads

Skip if

You need a specialized, domain-tuned model

Capability scores

Tool calling4/5

Multi-step reasoning4/5

Specifications

Context window: 131K tokens
VRAM: N/A (cloud-hosted)
License: apache-2.0
Pricing: $0.037/M input · $0.17/M output
Deployment: Cloud API
Docs: Model docs ↗

Our take

gpt-oss-120b from OpenAI offers a 131K-token context window and is well-suited to strong tool calling, multi-step reasoning, coding. Pricing is $0.037/M input · $0.17/M output, billed per token through the provider API.

It is a balanced pick with no major caveats for most use cases. License: apache-2.0.

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