gpt-oss-120b vs Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ

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
Qwen · B
Params
73.0 B
Context
32,768
30d
475 K

Specification comparison

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Specification gpt-oss-120b Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ
Parameters 120.4 B 73.0 B
Architecture GptOssForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 5,008,854 475,362
Downloads all time 57.0 M 11.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-04 2024-09-17

Download trend

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

5.5 M374 K
gpt-oss-120b Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ · fp16 57.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
gpt-oss-120b · fp16 @ 128K ctx 433.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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