gpt-oss-120b vs GLM-4.5-Air

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 23 October 2026.

openai · A · Open weights
Params
120.4 B
Context
131,072
30d
3.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
zai-org · B · Open weights
Params
110.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
818 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gpt-oss-120b GLM-4.5-Air
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 120.4 B 110.5 B
Architecture GptOssForCausalLM Glm4MoeForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 2
Downloads 30d 2,964,075 817,559
Downloads all time 60.3 M 5.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-04 2025-07-20
API input price / 1M tokens $0.15 $0.13
API output price / 1M tokens $0.60 $0.85
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.75 $0.98
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.075 $0.025
AA Intelligence Index 11.6 11.1
AA Coding Index 30.4 —
AA Agentic Index 3.7 —
Max output tokens 65,536 98,304
API providers 22 3
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
GLM-4.5-Air $0.98

gpt-oss-120b is 1.3× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 88 days (28 Jul – 23 Oct)

5.5 M184 K
gpt-oss-120b GLM-4.5-Air

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
GLM-4.5-Air · fp16 @ 128K ctx 508.7 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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