OpenAI

Local alternatives to GPT (latest)

OpenAI's current flagship closed model.

OpenAI now ships its own open-weight models (the gpt-oss line), which are by definition the closest openly-runnable relatives of its hosted GPT models. Closest by capability class:

These are community-regarded closest open-weight models by capability class — an editorial judgement, not a benchmark ranking. Sizes and hardware/speed figures are derived from the catalog and the same fit engine used across the site, judged at a 8,192-token context. Speeds are estimates, not measurements.

OpenAI open weights

gpt-oss is OpenAI's own open-weight release — the most defensible "closest local" claim there is, since it shares OpenAI's training lineage rather than merely approximating it.

Local model Size Hardware to run it Est. speed
gpt-oss-120b openai 120.4B (MoE) Runs fully on 96 GB (RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell 96GB) at F16 Runs fully on GPU @ F16 · 8K ctx 190–253 tok/s (estimate)
gpt-oss-20b openai 21.5B (MoE) Runs fully on 16 GB (RTX 5060 Ti 16GB) at F16 Runs fully on GPU @ F16 · 8K ctx 77–103 tok/s (estimate)

General reasoning alternatives

Where gpt-oss is unavailable or too large, the strongest open generalists are the community's next-closest local picks.

Local model Size Hardware to run it Est. speed
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Qwen tags: Long context 36B (MoE) Runs fully on 24 GB (RTX 4090) at Q4_K_M Runs fully on GPU @ Q4_K_M · 8K ctx 27–35 tok/s (estimate)
Qwen3-32B Qwen 32.8B Runs fully on 24 GB (RTX 4090) at Q4_K_M Runs fully on GPU @ Q4_K_M · 8K ctx 28–37 tok/s (estimate)

"Hardware to run it" is the smallest single GPU in our roster that runs the model's best-fitting quant fully on GPU at this context, computed by the same fit engine used sitewide. "Est. speed" is a modelled generation-throughput range labelled estimate (D8), never a measurement. Equivalence is a conservative editorial call and no benchmark scores are implied.