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gpt-oss-20b (free)

OpenAI released gpt-oss-20b (free) on August 4, 2025. The registry currently records it as open weights.

Model publication

Open weights

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 lower-latency inference and deployability on consumer or single-GPU hardware. The model is trained in OpenAI’s Harmony response format and supports reasoning level configuration, fine-tuning, and agentic capabilities including function calling, tool use, and structured outputs.

Licence
apache-2.0
Architecture
mixture_of_experts
Parameters
21.5B
Context
131.1K tokens
Figure 26: GPT-OSS 20B
GPT-OSS (20B) · architecture · Sebastian Raschka · LLM Architecture Gallery

Benchmarks

No benchmark observation recorded for this model.

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