gpt-oss-120b

An open-weight OpenAI reasoning model for production, general purpose and high reasoning use, with native function calling, web browsing, Python code execution and structured outputs for agentic tasks.

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Source checked 7 November 2026

Access and use

Download the weights from Hugging Face as openai/gpt-oss-120b, for example with huggingface-cli download openai/gpt-oss-120b --include "original/*" --local-dir gpt-oss-120b/, or pull it with Ollama (ollama pull gpt-oss:120b) or LM Studio (lms get openai/gpt-oss-120b). OpenAI's docs also list it on Amazon Bedrock as openai.gpt-oss-120b. The context window and maximum output are both 131,072 tokens. It takes text in and returns text, with low, medium or high reasoning effort set in the system prompt. It supports function calling with defined schemas, web browsing and Python code execution through built-in tools, and structured outputs. It must be used with OpenAI's harmony response format or it will not work correctly; the Transformers chat template applies it automatically. Its full chain of thought is visible to developers but is not intended to be shown to end users. It has 117B parameters with 5.1B active. With MXFP4 quantisation of its MoE weights it runs on a single 80GB GPU such as an NVIDIA H100 or AMD MI300X, and it can be fine-tuned on a single H100 node; the smaller gpt-oss-20b runs within 16GB of memory. The usage policy asks you to comply with all applicable law and adds no other use restrictions. Apache-2.0.

Who it is for

Teams that want an OpenAI reasoning model they can download, fine-tune and run on their own GPU or cloud instead of calling a hosted API.

What we checked

Last checked: 7 November 2026
Source read: huggingface.co/openai/gpt-oss-120b
How it was checked: Official documentation and pricing reviewed; not independently tested

Entry details

Official link: huggingface.co/openai/gpt-oss-120b
Group: Models
Added to Gearlist: 7 November 2026
Gearlist id: gpt-oss-120b
Markdown: /tools/gpt-oss-120b.md

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