gpt-oss-120b vs MiniMax-M2.7

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
MiniMaxAI · B · Open weights
Params
228.7 B
Context
204,800
30d
302 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gpt-oss-120b MiniMax-M2.7
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 120.4 B 228.7 B
Architecture GptOssForCausalLM MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 204,800
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 2,417,644 302,065
Downloads all time 62.0 M 8.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-04 2026-04-09
API input price / 1M tokens $0.15 $0.21
API output price / 1M tokens $0.60 $0.84
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.75 $1.05
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.075 $0.042
AA Intelligence Index 3.8 —
AA Coding Index 30.4 52.6
AA Agentic Index 3.7 15.3
Max output tokens 65,536 176,947
API providers 22 2
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
MiniMax-M2.7 $1.05

gpt-oss-120b is 1.4× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

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

5.5 M302 K
gpt-oss-120b MiniMax-M2.7

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-M2.7 · fp16 @ 200K ctx 1,111.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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