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gpt-oss-120b Pricing

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OpenAI · 131K tokens context

gpt-oss-120b from OpenAI costs $0.037 per 1 million input tokens and $0.170 per 1 million output tokens as of July 2026 (live OpenRouter data). The model supports a 131,072-token context window (approximately 98,304 words) with a 131K-token maximum output. A typical 1,000-token request costs $0.0000 in input charges; a 10,000-token request costs $0.0004.

gpt-oss-120b pricing and capability summary
Input price$0.037 / 1M tokens
Output price$0.170 / 1M tokens
Output / input ratio4.6×
Context window131,072 tokens (~98,304 words)
Maximum output131,072 tokens
Cost per 1K tokens (input)$0.0000
TierFast
Last verified

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.

Live pricing from OpenRouter

Input Price

$0.037

per 1 million tokens

Output Price

$0.170

per 1 million tokens

Context Window

131K tokens

max 131K output

Cost Examples

Request TypeTokensInput CostOutput Cost
1,000 word article1,333$0.0000493$0.000068
10-page document (2,500 words)3,333$0.000123$0.00017
1,000 lines of code5,000$0.000185$0.000255
100K token document100,000$0.0037$0.0051

Output cost estimated at 30% of input token count. Use the calculator for exact figures.

Strengths

  • Extremely cheap at $0.037/1M input tokens
  • Low latency for high-throughput workloads
  • Cost-effective at scale

Limitations

  • Less capable than flagship models on complex reasoning
  • Quality and availability can vary by hosting provider

Best Use Cases

High-volume classification
Text extraction and summarization
Simple chat and Q&A
Cost-sensitive pipelines

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