Is Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct or gpt-oss-120b cheaper?

gpt-oss-120b is cheaper on output tokens ($0.60 vs $0.66 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct or gpt-oss-120b?

gpt-oss-120b has the larger context window (131K tokens).

Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct vs gpt-oss-120b

gpt-oss-120b is cheaper on output tokens, while gpt-oss-120b offers a larger context window. Choose Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct or gpt-oss-120b based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct	gpt-oss-120b
Provider	Weights & Biases	Weights & Biases
Input / 1M tokens	$0.17	$0.15
Output / 1M tokens	$0.66	$0.60
Context window	64K	131K
Parameters	—	117B
Open weights	Yes	No
Released	Jan 2025	Aug 2025

Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct details →gpt-oss-120b details →

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