Side-by-side comparison of DBRX Instruct (Databricks · USA) and GPT-OSS 120b (OpenAI · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. DBRX Instruct is rated conditional; GPT-OSS 120b is EU-ready. They part ways on licence: DBRX Instruct is "Databricks Open", GPT-OSS 120b is "Apache 2.0".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional 132B MoE (36B active). Databricks Open Model License is bespoke — allows commercial use with acceptable-use policy and a 700M-MAU-style cap. Read the licence carefully; not Apache 2.0. | EU-ready OpenAI's first major open-weights release. Apache 2.0, MoE with 5.1B active over 117B total, MXFP4 quantised to fit a single 80GB GPU. Historic shift for a vendor that built its brand on closed weights. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Databricks Open | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | With caps | Yes |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | USA | USA |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 8/100 | 33/100 |
| Speed | — | 212 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $0.26/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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