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GPT OSS 20B

Added Aug 5, 2025Open weights

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An open-weight 21B parameter model released 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.

  • Reasoning
  • Tools
Input
Text
Output
Text
Discovery tier
Open weights

Pricing

USD per 1M tokens
Input
$0.02
Output
$0.10

Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example

Specifications

Context window
131.1K
Max output
16.4K
Average output (7 days)
1.9K tokens
Longer than 91% of 468 models

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GPT OSS 20BOpenAIThis modelSarvam 105BsarvamRemove
ProviderOpenAIsarvam
Discovery tierOpen weightsEfficient
AddedAug 5, 2025May 12, 2026
Limits
Context window131.07K131.07K
Max output16.38KBest4.1K
Average output1.9K tokens1.1K tokens
Pricing, USD per 1M tokens
Input$0.02Best$0.054
Output$0.10Best$0.21
Cache read—$0.0336
Performance
Request success (24h)99.6%—
Benchmark indexes
Intelligence Index9.0Best8.8
Coding Index20.7—
Math Index89.3—
Capabilities
ReasoningYesYes
ToolsYesYes
Reasoning effort—low, medium, high

Public evaluations

Benchmarks

Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.

  • GPT OSS 20B
  • Sarvam 105B

Intelligence Index

  • GPT OSS 20B9.0
  • Sarvam 105B8.8

GPT OSS 20B tested at high reasoning effort

GPT OSS 20B: Better than 16% of 326 scored models

3.8Catalog models by score55.1

Indexes

  • Coding Index

    Composite of the coding evaluations

    • GPT OSS 20B: 20.7
    • Sarvam 105B: —

  • Math Index

    Composite of the math evaluations

    • GPT OSS 20B: 89.3
    • Sarvam 105B: —

Agentic work

  • AutomationBench-AA

    Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations

    • GPT OSS 20B: 0.2%
    • Sarvam 105B: —

  • AutomationBench-AA tasks completed

    Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation

    • GPT OSS 20B: 0.0%
    • Sarvam 105B: —

  • GDPval-AAv2.1

    Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head

    • GPT OSS 20B: 339 Elo
    • Sarvam 105B: —

Document reasoning

  • GDP.pdf

    Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate

    • GPT OSS 20B: 2.0%
    • Sarvam 105B: —

  • AA-LCRv1.1

    Reasoning across long documents

    • GPT OSS 20B: 34.7%Top
    • Sarvam 105B: 0.0%

  • MLCR-AA

    Long-context reasoning over medical records

    • GPT OSS 20B: 1.1%
    • Sarvam 105B: —

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam

    Expert-level questions across academic fields

    • GPT OSS 20B: 11.0%Top
    • Sarvam 105B: 11.0%Top

  • GPQA Diamond

    Graduate-level science questions

    • GPT OSS 20B: 68.8%
    • Sarvam 105B: 73.8%Top

  • MMLU-Pro

    Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning

    • GPT OSS 20B: 74.8%
    • Sarvam 105B: —

  • IFBench

    Following precise output instructions

    • GPT OSS 20B: 65.1%Top
    • Sarvam 105B: 34.4%

Coding

  • Terminal-Benchv4.0

    Practical software engineering in a terminal

    • GPT OSS 20B: 0.0%
    • Sarvam 105B: —

  • SciCode

    Scientific computing in Python

    • GPT OSS 20B: 38.9%
    • Sarvam 105B: —

  • LiveCodeBench

    Recent competitive programming problems

    • GPT OSS 20B: 77.7%
    • Sarvam 105B: —

Math

  • AIME 2025

    Competition mathematics, 2025 problems

    • GPT OSS 20B: 89.3%
    • Sarvam 105B: —

Legacy evaluations

  • Terminal-Bench Hard

    Earlier terminal task suite

    • GPT OSS 20B: 10.6%Top
    • Sarvam 105B: 1.5%

  • τ²-Bench Telecom

    Tool use in a customer-support simulation

    • GPT OSS 20B: 60.2%Top
    • Sarvam 105B: 46.8%

  • AA-LCR (unversioned)

    Long-context reasoning, earlier grading

    • GPT OSS 20B: 34.7%Top
    • Sarvam 105B: 0.0%

Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. GPT OSS 20B was tested at high reasoning effort; compare scores measured at the same effort.Artificial Analysis

Live routing data

Performance and reliability

Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.

Prompt cache hits
0.0%
Request success (24h)
99.6%
Reliable

Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.

Hourly request success · last 72 hoursLowest hour 77.7%
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Developers

Use it through the API

Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.

Read the quickstart
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "openai/gpt-oss-20b",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
  }'
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="openai/gpt-oss-20b",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

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