gpt-oss-120b vs Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-405B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

openai · A · Open weights
Params
120.4 B
Context
131,072
30d
2.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
NousResearch · B · Open weights
Params
405.9 B
Context
131,072
30d
1 K
llama3 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gpt-oss-120b Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-405B
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 120.4 B 405.9 B
Architecture GptOssForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 llama3
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 2,893,802 1,327
Downloads all time 60.5 M 958 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-04 2024-08-13
API input price / 1M tokens $0.15 $1.00
API output price / 1M tokens $0.60 $1.00
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.75 $2.00
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.075 —
AA Intelligence Index 11.6 —
AA Coding Index 30.4 —
AA Agentic Index 3.7 —
Max output tokens 65,536 16,384
API providers 22 1
Tool calling Yes No
Reasoning mode Yes No

API cost

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

gpt-oss-120b $0.75
Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-405B $2.00

gpt-oss-120b is 2.7× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

5.5 M1 K
gpt-oss-120b Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-405B

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
Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-405B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 1,867.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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