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Cheapest gpt-oss-120b API providers

gpt-oss-120b is an open-weight model from OpenAI. On OpenRouter, 26 listings from 23 providers sell it, and the blended price runs from $0.025 to $0.45 per million tokens.

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Cheapest and fastest

Cheapest
Prime Intellect
$0.025 per 1M tokens blended
$0.015 input, $0.055 output
Fastest
Cerebras
807 tokens per second
$0.45 blended, 0.19 s to first token

Every provider

Provider Input /1M Output /1M Blended 3:1 Cache read /1M Context Quantization Latency Throughput
Prime Intellect $0.015 $0.055 $0.025 $0.013 131K FP4 0.84 s 73 tok/s
NEAR AI $0.03 $0.15 $0.06 $0.015 131K FP4 0.64 s 49 tok/s
Venice $0.03 $0.15 $0.06 $0.03 128K INT4 0.83 s 40 tok/s
CoreWeave $0.03 $0.17 $0.065 $0.03 131K FP4 0.27 s 91 tok/s
DekaLLM $0.03 $0.18 $0.0675 $0.03 131K BF16 0.51 s 53 tok/s
AkashML $0.03 $0.187 $0.0693 $0.03 131K FP4 0.39 s 103 tok/s
DeepInfra (bf16) $0.037 $0.17 $0.0703 – 131K BF16 0.43 s 35 tok/s
Crusoe $0.05 $0.25 $0.10 $0.05 131K BF16 0.24 s 217 tok/s
Mancer Down when checked $0.055 $0.25 $0.104 $0.055 131K FP8 0.82 s 48 tok/s
Sail Research $0.06 $0.40 $0.145 $0.03 131K FP4 0.62 s 129 tok/s
DigitalOcean $0.06 $0.42 $0.15 $0.012 128K Not listed 0.69 s 51 tok/s
Google Vertex (Global) Down when checked $0.09 $0.36 $0.158 – 131K Not listed 0.51 s 56 tok/s
Baseten $0.10 $0.50 $0.20 $0.10 128K FP4 0.18 s 156 tok/s
Baseten (US) $0.10 $0.50 $0.20 $0.10 128K FP4 0.17 s 165 tok/s
Amazon Bedrock $0.15 $0.60 $0.262 – 131K Not listed 0.51 s 210 tok/s
Amazon Bedrock (EU-WEST-1) $0.15 $0.60 $0.262 – 131K Not listed 0.48 s 152 tok/s
Groq Down when checked $0.15 $0.60 $0.262 $0.075 131K Not listed 0.19 s 342 tok/s
Nebius Token Factory $0.15 $0.60 $0.262 $0.10 131K FP4 0.27 s 281 tok/s
Phala $0.15 $0.60 $0.262 – 131K Not listed 0.93 s 145 tok/s
SiliconFlow Down when checked $0.15 $0.60 $0.262 $0.075 131K FP8 1.79 s 38 tok/s
Together $0.15 $0.60 $0.262 – 131K Not listed 0.34 s 91 tok/s
Parasail $0.10 $0.75 $0.263 $0.055 131K FP4 0.37 s 140 tok/s
Parasail (Fast) $0.15 $0.75 $0.30 – 131K FP4 0.28 s 162 tok/s
SambaNova $0.14 $0.95 $0.343 – 131K Not listed 1.10 s 335 tok/s
DeepInfra (fp8) Down when checked $0.20 $0.95 $0.388 – 131K FP8 1.42 s 59 tok/s
Cerebras $0.35 $0.75 $0.45 $0.35 131K FP16 0.19 s 807 tok/s
26 listings for gpt-oss-120b on OpenRouter, cheapest blended price first. Checked .

Blended is three parts input price to one part output, per million tokens. Latency is time to first token and throughput is output tokens per second, both averaged from OpenRouter's daily figures for the last 7 days. Cheapest and fastest only count listings that were up when checked.

Questions

What is the cheapest gpt-oss-120b API provider?

Prime Intellect, at $0.025 per million tokens blended ($0.015 input, $0.055 output), in OpenRouter's listings on November 7, 2026.

How much does gpt-oss-120b cost per million tokens?

Input runs from $0.015 to $0.35 per million tokens across 26 listings, and output from $0.055 to $0.95. The middle listing comes to $0.20 blended.

Which gpt-oss-120b provider is fastest?

Cerebras had the most throughput over the last 7 days, about 807 tokens per second. Baseten (US) was quickest to the first token at 0.17 s.

How do I pay for gpt-oss-120b inference?

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