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gpt-oss-120b: price, performance and context

Open gpt-oss-120b by OpenAI costs $0.037 per 1M input and $0.17 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 131.1K tokens in one request (≈ 390 pages of text) and scores 11.6 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 142 of 212.

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Updated Oct 09, 2026, 17:39 UTC · openai/gpt-oss-120b

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Key facts

Licence
Open weights: free to download and self-host
Input / 1M tokens
$0.037
Output / 1M tokens
$0.17
Context window
131.1K tokens
Max. output
118K tokens
Performance index
11.6 points · rank 142 of 212
Coding index
30.4 points · rank 84 of 119
Agentic index
3.7 points · rank 62 of 91
Cost at your usage
$0.08 / month
Knowledge cutoff
Jun 2024
In the catalog since
Aug 05, 2025
Capabilities
Reasoning, Tool Calling

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.00104,000
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.00129,000
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.0048,000
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.0027,000
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.0042,500

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