OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b

Public pricingIntelligence 79/100Medium memoryTiefes DenkenTool-Nutzung

OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b ist ein Text-Modell für Allgemeiner Chat, Analyse und Produktionseinsatz. Es verbindet stabile Allzweckleistung, einen Kontext von 131K tokens und ein kostengünstig-Profil für zuverlässige Arbeit über general chat, analysis, and production workloads.

Input

$0.03/1M

Output

$0.14/1M

Cached

$0.00/1M

Batch

$0.02/1M

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Technical specifications

gpt-oss-20b at a glance.

Memory

131,072

tokens

Max reply

131,072

tokens

Memory tier

Medium

a long report or a codebase file

Tokenizer

tiktoken-o200k

Released

Aug 2025

Training cutoff

Oct 2024

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

Benchmarks

Quality benchmarks

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What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick gpt-oss-20b

  • Multi-step reasoning, research agents, or hard math.
  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • High-volume workloads where unit cost matters.

When to look elsewhere

  • Your workload involves images — pick a vision-capable model instead.

Alternatives

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FAQ

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, gpt-oss-20b costs roughly $8 per month. Input is $0.03 /1M tokens and output is $0.14 /1M tokens.
gpt-oss-20b has a 131,072-token context window (medium memory — a long report or a codebase file). That means you can fit about 24,576 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, gpt-oss-20b supports deep step-by-step reasoning, calling functions / tools, strict JSON output, fine-tuning on your own data. It streams replies by default.
gpt-oss-20b was released in August 2025, with training data cut off around October 2024.
Models in a similar class include gpt-oss-120b, GPT-5 Nano, gpt-oss-safeguard-20b. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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