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OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b

Source description (English)

gpt-oss-20b is an open-weight 21B parameter model released by OpenAI under the Apache 2.0 license. It uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture with 3.6B active parameters per forward pass, optimized for...

Overview

Model specifications

Context
131,072 tokens
Maximum output
32,768 tokens
Architecture
text->text
Tokenizer
GPT
Knowledge cutoff
2024-06-30
Moderated
No
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Complete pricing

Synchronized OpenRouter rates. Token prices are shown per one million tokens.

Input
$0.018
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.09
per 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.009
per 1M tokens
API

Model configuration

Reasoning

Reasoning required
Yes
Default parameters
medium
Capabilities
high, medium, low
API

Quick start

Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY locally. Python requires requests; JavaScript runs in Node.js. Keep the key on the server.

API documentation

curl --fail-with-body https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"openai/gpt-oss-20b","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'
Capabilities

Input → Output

Input
text
Output
text
Reasoning

No · high · medium · low

API

Supported API parameters

frequency_penaltyinclude_reasoninglogit_biaslogprobsmax_tokensmin_ppresence_penaltyreasoningreasoning_effortrepetition_penaltyresponse_formatseedstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_ktop_logprobstop_p
Available providers

12 providers

Checked: September 29, 2026

Live providers on OpenRouter

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OpenRouter

Darkbloom

fp8
Context
131K
Maximum output
33K
Input
$0.018
Output
$0.09
Cache read
$0.009
Cache write
Not provided

AkashML

fp4
Context
131K
Maximum output
118K
Input
$0.02
Output
$0.1
Cache read
Not provided
Cache write
Not provided

DekaLLM

bf16
Context
131K
Maximum output
118K
Input
$0.029
Output
$0.14
Cache read
Not provided
Cache write
Not provided

CoreWeave

fp4
Context
131K
Maximum output
118K
Input
$0.03
Output
$0.13
Cache read
$0.03
Cache write
Not provided

DeepInfra

bf16
Context
131K
Maximum output
118K
Input
$0.03
Output
$0.14
Cache read
Not provided
Cache write
Not provided

Parasail

fp4
Context
131K
Maximum output
118K
Input
$0.03
Output
$0.15
Cache read
$0.02
Cache write
Not provided

Novita

fp4
Context
131K
Maximum output
33K
Input
$0.04
Output
$0.15
Cache read
Not provided
Cache write
Not provided

SiliconFlow

fp8
Context
131K
Maximum output
8K
Input
$0.04
Output
$0.18
Cache read
Not provided
Cache write
Not provided

Amazon Bedrock

Not provided
Context
131K
Maximum output
118K
Input
$0.07
Output
$0.15
Cache read
Not provided
Cache write
Not provided

Amazon Bedrock

Not provided
Context
131K
Maximum output
118K
Input
$0.07
Output
$0.15
Cache read
Not provided
Cache write
Not provided

Google

Not provided
Context
131K
Maximum output
33K
Input
$0.07
Output
$0.25
Cache read
Not provided
Cache write
Not provided

Groq

Not provided
Context
131K
Maximum output
66K
Input
$0.075
Output
$0.3
Cache read
$0.0375
Cache write
Not provided
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