AI model comparison

Trinity Large Thinking vs gpt-oss-120b

Pricing, context window, benchmarks, and features compared side by side. Or skip the guesswork and send one prompt to both.

Trinity Large Thinking is a powerful open source reasoning model from the team at Arcee AI. It shows strong performance in PinchBench, agentic workloads, and reasoning tasks.

Input / 1M
$0.25
Output / 1M
$0.80
Context
262K

gpt-oss-120b is an open-weight, 117B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model from OpenAI designed for high-reasoning, agentic, and general-purpose production use cases.

Input / 1M
$0.15
Output / 1M
$0.60
Context
131K

At a glance

Quick verdict

How the two models stack up on the things people ask about most.

Lower price

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gpt-oss-120b

1.5x cheaper for a typical chat

Higher intelligence score

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gpt-oss-120b

11.6 vs 10.8 on Artificial Analysis

Larger context window

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Trinity Large Thinking

262K vs 131K tokens

Newer release

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Trinity Large Thinking

Released April 1, 2026

Benchmarks

Benchmark scores

Independent scores from Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.

Intelligence index

arcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinking10.8
openai logogpt-oss-120b11.6

Coding index

arcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinking25.8
openai logogpt-oss-120b30.4

Agentic index

arcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinking1
openai logogpt-oss-120b3.7

Pricing

Trinity Large Thinking vs gpt-oss-120b API pricing

Per-token API rates. Cheaper option highlighted.

Metricarcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinkingopenai logogpt-oss-120b
Input tokensPer 1M tokens$0.25$0.15
Output tokensPer 1M tokens$0.80$0.60
Cached input (read)Per 1M tokens$0.06$0.08
Cache writePer 1M tokensNot availableNot available

What it costs in practice

Estimated cost per 1,000 requests at standard rates. Coding and long-document figures also show the cost when the input is already cached.

Chat message

2K in, 500 out

arcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinking$0.90
openai logogpt-oss-120b$0.60

Coding task

30K in, 4K out

arcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinking$10.70$5 cached
openai logogpt-oss-120b$6.90$4.65 cached

Long document summary

150K in, 2K out

arcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinking$39.10$10.60 cached
openai logogpt-oss-120b$23.70$12.45 cached

Specs

Context window and capabilities

How much each model can read, how much it can write, and what it accepts as input.

Metricarcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinkingopenai logogpt-oss-120b
Context window262K tokens131K tokens
Max output80K tokens66K tokens
Input typesTextText
Output typesTextText
Reasoning effort levelsNot availableHigh, Medium, Low
Default reasoning effortNot availableMedium
Release dateApril 1, 2026August 5, 2025

Features

Supported features

API features available for each model.

Metricarcee-ai logoTrinity Large Thinkingopenai logogpt-oss-120b
Tool callingSupportedSupported
Structured outputsNot supportedSupported
JSON modeNot supportedSupported
ReasoningSupportedSupported
TemperatureSupportedSupported
Stop sequencesNot supportedSupported
Deterministic seedNot supportedSupported
Verbosity controlNot supportedNot supported

Our take

gpt-oss-120b is 1.5x cheaper for a typical chat. gpt-oss-120b scores higher on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (11.6 vs 10.8). Trinity Large Thinking has the larger context window (262K vs 131K tokens). The right pick depends on your workload, so the quickest way to settle it is to send the same prompt to both and compare.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is Trinity Large Thinking or gpt-oss-120b cheaper?

gpt-oss-120b is cheaper for a typical chat (2K input tokens and 500 output tokens). gpt-oss-120b costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.60 per 1M output tokens, while Trinity Large Thinking costs $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $0.80 per 1M output tokens.

Which has a bigger context window, Trinity Large Thinking or gpt-oss-120b?

Trinity Large Thinking supports up to 262K tokens of context, compared with 131K for gpt-oss-120b.

Is Trinity Large Thinking smarter than gpt-oss-120b?

On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Trinity Large Thinking scores 10.8 and gpt-oss-120b scores 11.6, putting gpt-oss-120b ahead. Benchmarks don't capture everything, so the best test is running your own prompts through both.

Can I use Trinity Large Thinking and gpt-oss-120b at the same time?

Yes. Shortcut Chat sends one prompt to multiple models at once, so you can see Trinity Large Thinking and gpt-oss-120b answer side by side and keep the better response.

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Why choose? Ask both.

Send one prompt to Trinity Large Thinking and gpt-oss-120b at the same time. Compare the answers side by side and keep the best one.