gpt-oss-120b vs DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 5 September 2026.

openai · A
Params
120.4 B
Context
131,072
30d
5.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
deepseek-ai · B
Params
70.6 B
Context
131,072
30d
189 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gpt-oss-120b DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
Parameters 120.4 B 70.6 B
Architecture GptOssForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 5,008,854 189,344
Downloads all time 57.0 M 5.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-04 2025-01-20

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

5.5 M189 K
gpt-oss-120b DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 325.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
gpt-oss-120b · fp16 @ 128K ctx 433.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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