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gpt-oss-120b

gpt-oss-120b is an open-weight language model from OpenAI, released on August 5, 2025.

Developer
OpenAI
Released
August 5, 2025
Total parameters
117B
Active parameters per token
5.1B
Architecture
MoE
Context window
128K
Input
Text
License
Apache 2.0
Commercial use
Yes
Official weights, GB
65.2 GB
Hugging Face repository
huggingface.co
Checked on

gpt-oss-120b is a mixture-of-experts model with 117B total parameters, of which 5.1B are active for each token. OpenAI lists a context window of 128K tokens. The model takes text input. The weights are released under Apache 2.0, which allows commercial use.

The official weights on Hugging Face take about 65.2 GB. Running the model needs at least that much memory across GPUs and system RAM, plus room for the context cache; quantized versions need less.

Total parameters, billions
117B
Active parameters, billions
5.1B
Context window, tokens
128K
License type
Apache 2.0
License conditions
Apache 2.0, with a short usage policy in the repository. No user or revenue limits.
Weights precision
MXFP4 + BF16
License text
huggingface.co
Sources
PageURL
Hugging Face model cardhttps://huggingface.co/openai/gpt-oss-20b/raw/main/README.md
Hugging Face weights indexhttps://huggingface.co/openai/gpt-oss-120b/raw/main/model.safetensors.index.json
openai.comhttps://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-oss/
Hugging Face APIhttps://huggingface.co/api/models/openai/gpt-oss-120b?expand=safetensors

Questions

What license does gpt-oss-120b use?
The weights are released under Apache 2.0, with a short usage policy in the repository and no user or revenue limits.
How much memory does gpt-oss-120b need?
The official weights take about 65.2 GB, because they are published in MXFP4 + BF16 rather than full BF16. The memory calculator checks which setups fit.
How many parameters does gpt-oss-120b have?
117B in total, of which 5.1B are active for each token, with a context window of 128K tokens.
How does gpt-oss-120b compare with gpt-oss-20b?
gpt-oss-20b has 21B parameters, 3.6B of them active, and a 13.8 GB download under the same license.

Sources

Every figure comes from the developer’s model card, license text and official announcements, and from the model’s Hugging Face repository metadata. Each model page lists its sources and the date they were checked; the register is rechecked every week.

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