# gpt-oss-120b API, paid in crypto

> gpt-oss-120b by API at $0.142 / $0.57 per 1M tokens, 5% below the median of 9 hosts. Apache 2.0, OpenAI-compatible, crypto, no KYC.

- URL: https://llmwithcrypto.com/models/gpt-oss-120b/
- Last updated: 2026-10-23
- Publisher: LLMwithCrypto (https://llmwithcrypto.com)

OpenAI’s larger open-weight model, released under Apache 2.0, served by us on an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Its median is built from nine hosts, the widest of our list. Billed per token from a crypto balance. No KYC.

**Quick answer — Can I use gpt-oss-120b by API and pay in crypto?**

Yes. As of 23 October 2026, **LLMwithCrypto** serves gpt-oss-120b, the open-weight model OpenAI released under Apache 2.0, as `gpt-oss-120b`. It costs $0.142 per million input tokens and $0.57 per million output tokens, 5% below the median of 9 hosts, with a 128K-token context. Pay in crypto, no KYC.

## How does our price compare with other hosts?

List prices per million tokens on each host's own pricing page, read on 23 October 2026; promotions are left out. Ours is the median of these prices minus 5%; every host is in the [price index](https://llmwithcrypto.com/data/open-model-api-price-index-2026/).

| Host | Input / 1M | Output / 1M |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **LLMwithCrypto** | $0.142 | $0.57 |
| Together AI | $0.15 | $0.60 |
| Fireworks AI | $0.15 | $0.60 |
| DeepInfra | $0.037 | $0.17 |
| Novita AI | $0.05 | $0.25 |
| Nebius Token Factory (listed as approximate) | $0.15 | $0.60 |
| SambaNova Cloud | $0.22 | $0.59 |
| Cerebras | $0.35 | $0.75 |
| Baseten | $0.10 | $0.50 |
| Parasail | $0.10 | $0.75 |

*Prices checked on October 23, 2026.*

## How do I call gpt-oss-120b?

With the OpenAI SDK, as for any OpenAI-compatible API: set the base URL to `https://llmwithcrypto.com/api/v1`, read your key from `LLMWITHCRYPTO_API_KEY`, and pass `gpt-oss-120b` as the model. Pass your API key as a Bearer token in the Authorization header, as the OpenAI SDK does.

*gpt_oss_120b.py*

```python
import os

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://llmwithcrypto.com/api/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["LLMWITHCRYPTO_API_KEY"],
)

resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gpt-oss-120b",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Plan the steps to migrate a cron job to a queue worker, then list the risks."}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)
print(resp.usage)  # prompt_tokens and completion_tokens: what the call costs

```

## What is gpt-oss-120b good for?

gpt-oss-120b is one of the two open-weight models OpenAI published under Apache 2.0; the other is [gpt-oss-20b](https://llmwithcrypto.com/models/gpt-oss-20b/). Nine hosts list it at list prices, the widest coverage in our [price index](https://llmwithcrypto.com/data/open-model-api-price-index-2026/), with a context of about 128K tokens.

We position it for reasoning and tool use in agents and apps. It is not ChatGPT and not a GPT model sold by OpenAI: it is an open model anyone may host. We do not sell access to GPT, Claude, Gemini or Grok: their makers forbid reselling API access without their approval, and we do not have it.

## What licence does gpt-oss-120b come with?

Apache 2.0, plus a short usage policy in which you “agree to comply with all applicable law”, as published by OpenAI on Hugging Face (read 22 October 2026). Hosting it as a paid API is allowed. Each model keeps its own licence and use policy (for example Meta’s Llama Acceptable Use Policy and the “Built with Llama” notice); using a model through us means accepting them.

## gpt-oss-120b questions

### Is gpt-oss the same as GPT or ChatGPT?

No. gpt-oss models are open weights OpenAI released for anyone to run; GPT models behind ChatGPT and the OpenAI API are closed. We do not sell access to GPT, Claude, Gemini or Grok: their makers forbid reselling API access without their approval, and we do not have it.

### Some hosts are much cheaper. Why is your price higher?

Prices for gpt-oss-120b ranged from $0.037 to $0.35 per million input tokens on 23 October 2026. We follow the median of all nine hosts, minus 5%, not the lowest listing, which is often a slower or smaller tier.

### What happens to my prompts?

We do not store your prompts or the model’s answers: once a response is sent, its text is gone. Each call leaves one log line with the time, the account, the model and the token counts, deleted after 30 days.

## Sources

1. [Together AI pricing](https://www.together.ai/pricing) — Together AI (read 2026-10-23)
2. [Fireworks AI pricing](https://docs.fireworks.ai/serverless/pricing) — Fireworks AI (read 2026-10-23)
3. [DeepInfra pricing](https://deepinfra.com/openai/gpt-oss-120b) — DeepInfra (read 2026-10-23)
4. [Novita AI pricing](https://novita.ai/pricing) — Novita AI (read 2026-10-23)
5. [Nebius Token Factory pricing](https://tokenfactory.nebius.com/endpoints) — Nebius Token Factory (read 2026-10-23)
6. [SambaNova Cloud pricing](https://cloud.sambanova.ai/plans/pricing) — SambaNova Cloud (read 2026-10-23)
7. [Cerebras pricing](https://www.cerebras.ai/pricing) — Cerebras (read 2026-10-23)
8. [Baseten pricing](https://www.baseten.co/pricing/) — Baseten (read 2026-10-23)
9. [Parasail pricing](https://www.parasail.io/pricing) — Parasail (read 2026-10-23)
10. [gpt-oss-120b model card and licence](https://huggingface.co/openai/gpt-oss-120b) — OpenAI on Hugging Face (read 2026-10-22)

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LLMwithCrypto: LLMwithCrypto is an OpenAI-compatible LLM API for open-weight models — DeepSeek V4 Pro, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, DeepSeek R1, Qwen3.5 397B A17B, Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct, gpt-oss-120b, gpt-oss-20b, GLM-4.7, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, Gemma 4 31B, Mistral Large 3, Mistral Small 4 — paid per token from a prepaid crypto balance, at 5% below the median price of the public hosts. No KYC: no ID, no selfie, no documents. Prompts and outputs are not stored.