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gpt-oss-20b

by OpenAI openai/gpt-oss-20b

Welcome to the gpt-oss series, OpenAI’s open-weight models designed for powerful reasoning, agentic tasks, and versatile developer use cases.

Parameters20.9B
Context131,072
Weights41.3 GB
Licenseapache-2.0
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads6.7M

Runs On

What it takes to serve gpt-oss-20b (20.9B parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.

PrecisionWeightsMemory neededCheapest setupPer hourAlso fits
16-bit 41.8 GB 50.2 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 20.9 GB 25.1 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 10.5 GB 12.5 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00

Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the SAVRN Index, read Sep 18, 2026.

SAVRN's Notes on gpt-oss-20b

Five hosts on the SAVRN Index serve gpt-oss-20b by the token, from $0.03 in and $0.14 out per million at DeepInfra to $0.10 and $0.50 at Groq. Owned, this text generator fits on one card: 12.5 GB at 4-bit, 25.1 GB at 8-bit, 50.2 GB at 16-bit, and the least expensive card listed, a 192 GB MI300X, rents for $1.85 an hour, so even full precision leaves room for its 131,072-token context.

You can modify and resell this one; Apache 2.0 allows commercial use, modification and redistribution as long as the notices stay intact. The publisher says it was trained on its harmony response format and should only be used with it, so your serving stack has to speak harmony. And settle rent-or-own yourself: whether $0.14 per million output tokens beats $1.85 an hour depends on how many tokens a day you push through.

Model Card

By OpenAI, published under apache-2.0, revision 6cee5e81ee83.

Try gpt-oss · Guides · Model card · OpenAI blog


Welcome to the gpt-oss series, OpenAI’s open-weight models designed for powerful reasoning, agentic tasks, and versatile developer use cases.

We’re releasing two flavors of these open models: - gpt-oss-120b — for production, general purpose, high reasoning use cases that fit into a single 80GB GPU (like NVIDIA H100 or AMD MI300X) (117B parameters with 5.1B active parameters) - gpt-oss-20b — for lower latency, and local or specialized use cases (21B parameters with 3.6B active parameters)

Both models were trained on our harmony response format and should only be used with the harmony format as it will not work correctly otherwise.

[!NOTE] This model card is dedicated to the smaller gpt-oss-20b model. Check out gpt-oss-120b for the larger model.

Highlights

Read the full model card (734 words)

Configuration

Architecture
GptOssForCausalLM
Context length (tokens)
131,072
Layers
24
Hidden size
2,880
Feed-forward size
2,880
Attention heads
64
Key/value heads
8
Head dimension
64
Vocabulary size
201,088
Experts
32
Experts active per token
4
Sliding window (tokens)
128
RoPE base
150,000
Model type
gpt_oss
Quantization
mxfp4

Identity and Version

Repository
openai/gpt-oss-20b
Publisher
OpenAI
Task
Text generation
Modality
Text
Library
transformers
Parameters
20.9B parameters
Languages
Not stated by the source
Revision
6cee5e81ee83917806bbde320786a8fb61efebee
First published
2025-08-04
Last updated
2025-08-26

Files and Weights

18 files, 41.3 GB in total. The weights are 5 files totalling 41.3 GB in bin, safetensors.

Weights5 files · 41.3 GB
Configuration6 files · 51.9 KB
Tokenizer2 files · 27.9 MB
Documentation2 files · 18.5 KB
Other2 files · 16.9 KB
Repository1 file · 1.6 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
metal/model.binWeights13.8 GB 725b7f996b5a
model-00000-of-00002.safetensorsWeights4.8 GB 16d0f997dcfc
model-00001-of-00002.safetensorsWeights4.8 GB 4fbe328ab445
model-00002-of-00002.safetensorsWeights4.2 GB a18106b209e9
original/model.safetensorsWeights13.8 GB 3340a61d1a03
config.jsonConfiguration1.8 KB
generation_config.jsonConfiguration177 B
model.safetensors.index.jsonConfiguration36.4 KB
original/config.jsonConfiguration376 B
original/dtypes.jsonConfiguration13.1 KB
special_tokens_map.jsonConfiguration98 B
LICENSEDocumentation11.4 KB
README.mdDocumentation7.1 KB
USAGE_POLICYOther200 B
chat_template.jinjaOther16.7 KB
.gitattributesRepository1.6 KB
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer27.9 MB 0614fe83cada
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer4.2 KB

License and Download

License
apache-2.0
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
41.3 GB
Download from OpenAI

Released by OpenAI through its official repository on Hugging Face. Read the license.

Built From

Evaluations

Each result is shown as reported, with the conditions its reporter stated. None is a SAVRN measurement. A comparison lines two results up only when their configuration, unit and setup are all stated and identical.

BenchmarkConditionsResultReported byRevisionDate
Idavidrein/gpqa Task diamondMetric diamondSetup GPQA DiamondComparison conditions not established 58.5859 EvalEval
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-04-19
Idavidrein/gpqa Task diamondMetric diamondSetup Reasoning: mediumComparison conditions not established 66 GPT-OSS Model Card
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2025-08-05
Idavidrein/gpqa Task diamondMetric diamondSetup Reasoning: high, With toolsComparison conditions not established 74.2 GPT-OSS Model Card
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2025-08-05
Idavidrein/gpqa Task diamondMetric diamondSetup Reasoning: highComparison conditions not established 71.5 GPT-OSS Model Card
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2025-08-05
Idavidrein/gpqa Task diamondMetric diamondSetup Reasoning: low, With toolsComparison conditions not established 58 GPT-OSS Model Card
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2025-08-05
Idavidrein/gpqa Task diamondMetric diamondSetup Reasoning: medium, With toolsComparison conditions not established 67.1 GPT-OSS Model Card
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2025-08-05
Idavidrein/gpqa Task diamondMetric diamondSetup Reasoning: lowComparison conditions not established 56.8 GPT-OSS Model Card
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2025-08-05
LEXam-Benchmark/LEXam Task mcq_4_choicesMetric mcq_4_choicesComparison conditions not established 40.78 LEXam Leaderboard
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-06-02
LEXam-Benchmark/LEXam Task open_questionMetric open_questionComparison conditions not established 32.12 LEXam Leaderboard
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-06-02
LiquidAI/ifstruct-v1.0 Task ifstruct_v1Metric ifstruct_v1Comparison conditions not established 91.95 Liquid AI — IFStruct v1.0 blog (gpt-oss-20b)
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-06-30
SWE-bench/SWE-bench_Verified Task swe_bench_%_resolvedMetric swe_bench_%_resolvedSetup Reasoning: lowComparison conditions not established 37.4 GPT-OSS Model Card
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2025-08-05
SWE-bench/SWE-bench_Verified Task swe_bench_%_resolvedMetric swe_bench_%_resolvedSetup Reasoning: mediumComparison conditions not established 53.2 GPT-OSS Model Card
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2025-08-05
SWE-bench/SWE-bench_Verified Task swe_bench_%_resolvedMetric swe_bench_%_resolvedSetup Reasoning: highComparison conditions not established 60.7 GPT-OSS Model Card
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2025-08-05
TIGER-Lab/MMLU-Pro Task mmlu_proMetric mmlu_proComparison conditions not established 73.6 EvalEval
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-06-30
cais/hle Task hleMetric hleSetup Reasoning: lowComparison conditions not established 4.2 GPT-OSS Model Card
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2025-08-05
cais/hle Task hleMetric hleSetup Reasoning: medium, With toolsComparison conditions not established 8.8 GPT-OSS Model Card
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2025-08-05
cais/hle Task hleMetric hleSetup Reasoning: mediumComparison conditions not established 7 GPT-OSS Model Card
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2025-08-05
cais/hle Task hleMetric hleSetup Reasoning: highComparison conditions not established 10.9 GPT-OSS Model Card
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2025-08-05
cais/hle Task hleMetric hleSetup Reasoning: high, With toolsComparison conditions not established 17.3 GPT-OSS Model Card
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2025-08-05
cais/hle Task hleMetric hleSetup Reasoning: low, With toolsComparison conditions not established 6.3 GPT-OSS Model Card
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2025-08-05

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published41.3 GB
16-bit41.8 GB
8-bit20.9 GB
4-bit10.5 GB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

Hosted Prices

HostInput / outputUnitObserved
DeepInfra$0.03 / $0.14input / output, per million tokensSep 18, 2026
Groq$0.10 / $0.50input / output, per million tokensSep 18, 2026
Novita$0.04 / $0.15input / output, per million tokensSep 18, 2026
Nscale$0.05 / $0.20input / output, per million tokensSep 18, 2026
OVHcloud$0.05 / $0.18input / output, per million tokensSep 18, 2026

From the SAVRN Index.

Compare gpt-oss-20b

Questions About gpt-oss-20b

How much GPU memory does gpt-oss-20b need?

About 50.2 GB at 16-bit and 12.5 GB at 4-bit: the weights (20.9B parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run gpt-oss-20b on?

At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.

Can I use gpt-oss-20b commercially?

Yes. gpt-oss-20b is released under Apache License 2.0. The Apache License 2.0 is a permissive open-source license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution. It requires keeping the license and copyright notices and any NOTICE file, stating significant changes, and it includes an express patent grant from contributors.

What is gpt-oss-20b's context length?

131,072 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.

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