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OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b

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...

ReasoningTool callingStreamingJSON mode
131.1K token context Released Aug 5, 2025

Intelligence overview

0
Intelligence
0
Coding
0
Agentic

131.1K tok

Context window

118.0K tok

Max output

Capabilities

What OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b can do.

Reasoning

Extended reasoning

Works through problems step by step before answering, trading latency for accuracy on harder tasks.

Adjustable effort

Choose how much the model deliberates per request — trade speed for depth as the task demands.

Development

Tool calling

Calls external functions mid-response, then continues reasoning from the result.

Structured output

Returns responses constrained to a JSON schema, ready to parse without cleanup.

Streaming

Streams tokens as they're generated instead of waiting on the full response.

Performance

Intelligence9.0
Artificial Analysis
Coding20.7
Artificial Analysis
Agentic1.4
Artificial Analysis

Design Arena — ranked #112 across 2 categories

Pricing

Pay for what you use.

Every model in UltraGPT runs behind one flat subscription — this is the underlying per-token cost the catalog tracks.

INPUT

$0.03 / 1M tok

OUTPUT

$0.13 / 1M tok

Cache read$0.03 / 1M tok
Use cases

Built for serious work.

Build

Generate and refactor code, with the ability to run and verify tool calls and return structured, parseable output.

Think

Works through hard problems with adjustable reasoning effort — high, medium, low.

Research

Holds up to 131.1K tokens of source material in context without losing the thread.

Automate

Chains tool calls across multi-step workflows, reasoning between each one.

Preview

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Comparison

How OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b stacks up.

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Specification

Technical details.

Specification

Context window
131.1K tokens
Max output
118.0K tokens
Input modalities
Text
Output modalities
Text
Knowledge cutoff
Jun 30, 2024
Release date
Aug 5, 2025
Reasoning effort
high, medium, low (always on)
Streaming
Supported
Tool calling
Supported
JSON mode
Supported

Model identity

Provider
OpenAI
Provider ID
openai

Model ID

Reasoning

Effort: high, medium, low · always on
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