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Last editorial review: 2026-04-17

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Known issues we've tracked

Initial community quantizations (Q4 and below) showed degradation on reasoning tasks versus FP16 -- the MoE routing layers are sensitive to quantization. Q5/Q6 is the practical sweet spot for gpt-oss-120b
2025-09•Reddit r/LocalLLaMA, Hugging Face discussions
gpt-oss did not make the transition to OpenAI's GPT-5.x tokenizer -- still uses the older tokenizer from the GPT-4 era. Compatible with existing tooling but slightly less token-efficient than frontier OpenAI API models
2025-08•OpenAI open-models docs

Issues here are sourced from our editorial sweeps, not real-time telemetry. Newer issues may exist.

What to use if gpt-oss (OpenAI) is down

Top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives in the same category, ordered by our overall score.

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Qwen (Alibaba)

8.8

Alibaba's open-weights + API family -- Qwen 3.6-Max-Preview (Apr 20 2026 CLOSED-weights #1 on SWE-bench Pro/Terminal-Bench 2.0/SciCode), Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (Apr 16 open-weights coding champion), plus Qwen 3.6-Plus API flagship. Apache 2.0 on most sizes, but the best model is now proprietary

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MiniMax M2 / M2.5

8.4

MiniMax's open-weights frontier -- first open model to match Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-Bench at 10-20× lower cost

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Gemma 4 (Google)

8.3

Google DeepMind's open-weights model family -- multimodal, 256K context, runs on edge devices

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IBM Granite 4.0

8.2

IBM's enterprise-focused open-weight family -- Granite 4.0 hybrid Mamba-2 + transformer architecture (70-80% memory reduction vs pure transformer), 3B to 32B sizes, Apache 2.0. First open model family to secure ISO 42001 certification. Nano 350M runs on CPU with 8-16GB RAM. 3B Vision variant landed 2026-04-01

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Kimi K2.5 (Moonshot)

8.1

Moonshot's 1T-parameter MoE open-weights flagship -- best open-source agentic coder, rivals Claude Opus 4.5

About gpt-oss (OpenAI)

Tier A (8.1/10). OpenAI's FIRST open-weight models -- gpt-oss-120b (single 80GB GPU, near parity with o4-mini on reasoning) and gpt-oss-20b (runs on 16GB edge devices). Apache 2.0. Launched 2025-08-05. gpt-oss-safeguard ships in 2026 as the safety-tuned variant

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