gpt-oss-120b vs Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 20 September 2026.

openai · A
Params
120.4 B
Context
131,072
30d
5.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
meta-llama · B
Params
70.6 B
Context
30d
916 K
llama3.3 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gpt-oss-120b Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Parameters 120.4 B 70.6 B
Architecture GptOssForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 llama3.3
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 8
Downloads 30d 5,117,998 916,029
Downloads all time 56.9 M 14.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-04 2024-11-26

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 55 days (28 Jul – 20 Sep)

5.5 M287 K
gpt-oss-120b Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct · fp16 166.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
gpt-oss-120b · fp16 @ 128K ctx 433.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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