gpt-oss-120b (free)
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 to run on a single H100 GPU with native MXFP4 quantization. The model supports configurable reasoning depth, full chain-of-thought access, and native tool use, including function calling, browsing, and structured output generation.
Context window
This model accepts 131K tokens in one request (~98K words of text).
What fits in one request
- FitsShort documentAbout 1,500 words of text
- FitsLong documentAbout 37K words of text
- Won't fitSmall codebaseAbout 150K words of text
- Won't fitFull novelAbout 375K words of text
Specifications
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- Context window
- 131,072 tokens (131K)
- Max output tokens
- 131,072 tokens (131K)
- Speed tier
- balanced
- Provider
- Openai
- Release date
- Aug 2025
Capabilities
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- Tool use
- Can call external tools and APIs
- Supported
- Function calling
- Structured function call interface
- Supported
- Extended thinking
- Shows its chain-of-thought reasoning
- Supported
- Streaming
- Returns tokens as they are generated
- Supported
- Vision
- Accepts image inputs alongside text
- Not supported
- Web search
- Can browse the web during a request
- Not supported
- Batch API
- Process many requests asynchronously
- Not supported
- Prompt caching
- Reuse repeated prompt prefixes cheaply
- Not supported
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