gpt-oss-120b vs MiniMax-M2.5

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

openai · A
Params
120.4 B
Context
131,072
30d
5.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
MiniMaxAI · B
Params
228.7 B
Context
196,608
30d
324 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gpt-oss-120b MiniMax-M2.5
Parameters 120.4 B 228.7 B
Architecture GptOssForCausalLM MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 196,608
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages
Downloads 30d 5,008,854 323,999
Downloads all time 57.0 M 4.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-04 2026-02-12

Download trend

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

5.5 M324 K
gpt-oss-120b MiniMax-M2.5

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
MiniMax-M2.5 · fp16 @ 192K ctx 1,077.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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