Side-by-side comparison of GLM-4.5 (Zhipu AI · China) and GPT-OSS 120b (OpenAI · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. GLM-4.5 is rated conditional; GPT-OSS 120b is EU-ready. They part ways on licence: GLM-4.5 is "MIT", GPT-OSS 120b is "Apache 2.0".
| Field | ||
|---|---|---|
| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional MoE flagship from Zhipu under MIT. Strong agentic and coding benchmarks. Same Chinese-origin alignment and geopolitical considerations as DeepSeek / Qwen. | 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 | MIT | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Yes | Yes |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | China | USA |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 26/100 | 33/100 |
| Speed | 44 tok/s | 212 tok/s |
| Blended price | $0.84/M | $0.26/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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