gpt-oss-120b vs DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

openai · A · Open weights
Params
120.4 B
Context
131,072
30d
2.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
deepseek-ai · B · Open weights
Params
304.2 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
2.7 M
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gpt-oss-120b DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 120.4 B 304.2 B
Architecture GptOssForCausalLM DeepseekV4ForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 1,048,576
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 2,417,644 2,697,621
Downloads all time 62.0 M 13.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-04 2026-07-31
API input price / 1M tokens $0.15 $0.043
API output price / 1M tokens $0.60 $0.30
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.75 $0.34
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.075 $0.035
AA Intelligence Index 3.8 —
AA Coding Index 30.4 69.1
AA Agentic Index 3.7 41
Max output tokens 65,536 943,718
API providers 22 24
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

gpt-oss-120b $0.75
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 $0.34

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 is 2.2× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

5.5 M1.0 M
gpt-oss-120b DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731

VRAM side by side

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

gpt-oss-120b · fp16 @ 128K ctx 433.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 6,024.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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