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gpt-oss-120b

Self-hosting a frontier-ish reasoning model on a single H100 with full chain-of-thought visibility and no per-token bill.

Data checked 2026-09-06

OpenAI ga open weights gpt-oss-120b

Context window
131.1K tokens in
Max output
131.1K tokens out
Input
per 1M tokens
Output
per 1M tokens
Knowledge cutoff
2024-06-01
Released
2025-08-05
Parameters
117B total / 5.1B active MoE
Licence
Apache-2.0

A What it is for

OpenAI publishes no hosted price for it on the API pricing page, so cost depends on your own or a third party's infrastructure.

B Capabilities

tools reasoning streaming structured-output batch
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Output modalitiestext

C Others from OpenAI

Model Context Max out In $/M Out $/M Blended Status
GPT-6 Astra gpt-6-astra 1.1M 128K $10.00 $50.00 $20.00 ga
GPT-5.6 Sol gpt-5.6-sol 1.1M 128K $4.00 $20.00 $8.00 ga
GPT-5.6 Terra gpt-5.6-terra 1.1M 128K $2.00 $12.00 $4.50 ga
GPT-5.6 Luna gpt-5.6-luna 1.1M 128K $0.20 $1.20 $0.45 ga
GPT-5.6 Cyber gpt-5.6-cyber 400K 128K $12.50 $75.00 $28.13 ga
Daybreak Blue (alias) gpt-daybreak-blue-latest 1.1M 128K $4.00 $20.00 $8.00 ga
Daybreak Red (alias) gpt-daybreak-red-latest 400K 128K $12.50 $75.00 $28.13 ga
GPT-5.5 Cyber gpt-5.5-cyber $12.50 $75.00 $28.13 deprecated
GPT-5.5 gpt-5.5 1.1M 128K $5.00 $30.00 $11.25 ga
GPT-5.5 Pro gpt-5.5-pro 1.1M 128K $30.00 $180.00 $67.50 ga
GPT-5.4 gpt-5.4 1.1M 128K $2.50 $15.00 $5.63 ga
GPT-5.4 Mini gpt-5.4-mini 400K 128K $0.75 $4.50 $1.69 ga

How this model is billed. Open-weight release, not an OpenAI API product. OpenAI's own API pricing page (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing) and API models list (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models) contain no gpt-oss entry — gpt-oss appears only as a cookbook topic. The official model card on huggingface.co/openai describes 117B total / 5.1B active parameters (MoE), Apache 2.0 license, and distributi

D Verify before you commit

Model pricing changes without notice and this page is a snapshot. Confirm against the vendor's own page before you build a budget on it.

Source: huggingface.co · checked 2026-09-06 · OpenAI pricing · API docs