gpt-oss-120b pricing & price history
gpt-oss-120b by OpenAI costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.60 per 1M output tokens, with a 131K token context window.
Price history
| Date | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-09 | $0.018 → $0.15 +733% | $0.067 → $0.60 +796% |
| 2026-11-07 | $0.012 → $0.018 +50% | $0.044 → $0.067 +52% |
| 2026-11-07 | $0.023 → $0.012 -48% | $0.087 → $0.044 -49% |
| 2026-11-06 | $0.01 → $0.023 +130% | $0.037 → $0.087 +135% |
| 2026-11-06 | $0.15 → $0.01 -93% | $0.60 → $0.037 -94% |
| 2026-11-02 | $0.02 → $0.15 +650% | $0.075 → $0.60 +700% |
| 2026-11-01 | $0.15 → $0.02 -87% | $0.60 → $0.075 -88% |
| 2026-10-15 | $0.037 → $0.15 +305% | $0.17 → $0.60 +253% |
| 2026-10-14 | $0.15 → $0.037 -75% | $0.60 → $0.17 -72% |
| 2026-10-13 | $0.037 → $0.15 +305% | $0.17 → $0.60 +253% |
| 2026-09-29 | $0.15 → $0.037 -75% | $0.60 → $0.17 -72% |
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About gpt-oss-120b
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...
FAQ
How much does gpt-oss-120b cost?
gpt-oss-120b by OpenAI costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.60 per 1M output tokens, with a 131K token context window. A typical request with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about $0.0006.
What is the context window of gpt-oss-120b?
gpt-oss-120b supports up to 131,072 tokens of context and up to 65,536 output tokens per request.
Has gpt-oss-120b’s price changed?
Yes. ModelBank recorded 11 price changes; the latest on 2026-11-09.
Is gpt-oss-120b being deprecated?
No retirement date has been announced for gpt-oss-120b as of 2026-11-12.
What are cheaper alternatives to gpt-oss-120b?
Cheaper options include Lyria 3 Pro Preview (Free/Free), Lyria 3 Clip Preview (Free/Free), Ling 3.0 Tiny ($0.015/$0.045), Llama 3.1 8B Instruct ($0.02/$0.04).