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OpenAI GPT-OSS 120B vs Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct

On provider list prices, OpenAI GPT-OSS 120B costs $0.15 per million input tokens against $0.18 for Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct: 1.2x apart. Output is $0.60 against $0.68 (1.1x). On Allocate both bill at list plus the 7% transaction fee.

OpenAI GPT-OSS 120B Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
LabOpenAIQwen
AccessOpen weightsOpen weights
Context window128K tokens256K tokens
List price, input$0.15 / M tokens$0.18 / M tokens
List price, output$0.6 / M tokens$0.68 / M tokens
Cached inputn/an/a
LicenseCustom licenseApache 2.0
Fine-tunableYesYes

Specifications and provider list prices from the Allocate catalog, checked 2026-07-21. Billed price is list plus the 7% transaction fee.

What the numbers say

Take 1,000,000 requests a month at 1,200 input and 350 output tokens each. That workload costs $390 a month on OpenAI GPT-OSS 120B and $454 on Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct at list: a gap of $64, or 1.2x.

Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct reads 256K tokens per request against 128K for OpenAI GPT-OSS 120B, 2.0x the window. That decides which one can take whole documents without splitting them.

OpenAI GPT-OSS 120B$0.15$0.60
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct$0.18$0.68
InputOutput

Choose OpenAI GPT-OSS 120B for

  • The lower list price ($0.15 in / $0.60 out per M tokens)
OpenAI GPT-OSS 120B details

Choose Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct for

  • The longer context window (256K vs 128K tokens)
  • Fine-tuning under a permissive license (Apache 2.0)
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct details

Common questions

Which is cheaper, OpenAI GPT-OSS 120B or Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct?

OpenAI GPT-OSS 120B, on this workload shape. At list prices it is $0.15/$0.60 per million tokens in and out against $0.18/$0.68 for Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct. Billed on Allocate: $0.16/$0.64 against $0.19/$0.73, list plus 7%.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct: 262,144 tokens (256K) against 131,072 (128K) for OpenAI GPT-OSS 120B.

Can I fine-tune OpenAI GPT-OSS 120B or Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct?

Both publish open weights (OpenAI GPT-OSS 120B: Custom license; Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct: Apache 2.0), so both can be fine-tuned. On Allocate the trained weights stay inside your boundary and belong to you.

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