gpt-oss-120b vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

openai · A · Open weights
Params
120.4 B
Context
131,072
30d
2.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
81.3 B
Context
262,144
30d
38 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gpt-oss-120b Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 120.4 B 81.3 B
Architecture GptOssForCausalLM Qwen3NextForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 2,891,100 38,286
Downloads all time 60.4 M 2.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-04 2025-09-09
API input price / 1M tokens $0.15 $0.15
API output price / 1M tokens $0.60 $1.20
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.75 $1.35
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.075 —
AA Intelligence Index 11.6 11.2
AA Coding Index 30.4 17.4
AA Agentic Index 3.7 —
Max output tokens 65,536 235,929
API providers 22 1
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
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking $1.35

gpt-oss-120b is 1.8× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

5.5 M39 K
gpt-oss-120b Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking

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
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking · fp16 @ 256K ctx 569.8 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

Adjacent comparisons