Instructions to use openai/gpt-oss-120b with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use openai/gpt-oss-120b with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="openai/gpt-oss-120b")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("openai/gpt-oss-120b")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("openai/gpt-oss-120b")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
	messages,
	add_generation_prompt=True,
	tokenize=True,
	return_dict=True,
	return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=40)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Inference
HuggingChat
Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use openai/gpt-oss-120b with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "openai/gpt-oss-120b"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "openai/gpt-oss-120b",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/openai/gpt-oss-120b

SGLang

How to use openai/gpt-oss-120b with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "openai/gpt-oss-120b" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "openai/gpt-oss-120b",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "openai/gpt-oss-120b" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "openai/gpt-oss-120b",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use openai/gpt-oss-120b with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/openai/gpt-oss-120b
```

120B model for agent orchestration

#214

by O96a - opened Mar 28

Discussion

O96a

Mar 28

The 120B parameter scale is interesting for complex reasoning tasks. We've been investigating where the sweet spot lies between model size and latency for multi-agent systems — at some point, the inference cost outweighs the reasoning gains for production workloads. Curious if anyone has benchmarked gpt-oss-120b on multi-step agentic tasks vs smaller models with chain-of-thought prompting. For RAG pipelines, we've found that 70B models often match 120B performance when the retrieval is good. The 4616 likes suggest strong interest, but deployment stories would be valuable for teams considering the infrastructure investment.

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