Deprecated on Sep 15, 2026. 15 providers still list it at the prices below.
Context
131K
Max output
131K
Serving providers
15
Cheapest input
$0.0145 /1M
On-demand listed rates, OpenRouter routed quotes and Vercel reseller quotes. Enterprise commitments (committed-use discounts, provisioned throughput, negotiated rates) can be materially lower.

Benchmarks

independent evaluations · source: Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face leaderboards
Speed & latency
Output speed
219 t/s
tokens / second
Time to first token
0.77s
latency
Headline indices
20.7
of 100
Frozen Sep 9, 2026
1.4
of 100
Frozen Sep 9, 2026
Individual benchmarks · click a row for effort variants
BenchmarkBest scoreEffortCost / task
AA-BriefcaseUndated0%default—
APEX Agents1%default—
Automation Bench0.0default—
CritPt1%default—
EvalComputeProxyFrozen Aug 18, 2026200.1default—
GDPval v2Frozen Aug 18, 2026566.6default—
GPQA Diamond69%default—
Humanity's Last Exam11%default—
IFBench65%default—
LiveCodeBench78%default—
Long-Context Reasoning35%default—
Mlcr OverallFrozen Sep 9, 20260.0default—
MMLU-ProFrozen Aug 18, 202675%default—
Omniscience-58.5low—
Omniscience Accuracy0.2default—
Omniscience Non Hallucination0.1low—
SciCode39%default—
SWE-bench Verified61%default—
Terminal Bench400default—
TerminalBench Hard11%default—
TerminalBench v2.114%default—
τ-bench Banking7%default—
τ²-bench60%default—
Artificial Analysis last published scores for this benchmark on Sep 9, 2026. Scores here are frozen at that date, and models released since are not on it.
We cannot tell whether this benchmark is still being published. Treat these scores as undated.
Artificial Analysis last published scores for this benchmark on Aug 18, 2026. Scores here are frozen at that date, and models released since are not on it.

Pricing by serving provider

standard tier · per 1M tokens · click a provider to expand

Input pricing runs from $0.0145 to $0.20 per 1M tokens across 15 providers, so the dearest route costs 1279% more than the cheapest for the same model.

Serving providerInput /1MOutput /1MEndpoints
DarkbloomCheapest$0.0145$0.071
Standarddarkbloom/gpt-oss-20b
ComponentUnitStandard
Text input/1M tok$0.0145
Text output/1M tok$0.07
OpenRouter$0.018$0.091
DeepInfra$0.03$0.141
VercelVercel reseller quote$0.03$0.141
Wandb$0.03$0.131
Novita$0.04$0.151
Ovhcloud$0.04$0.151
Together AI$0.05$0.201
Cloudflare is dearest at $0.20 / $0.30

Price history

listed seller prices, input and output per 1M tokens
Input Output
Input down 71% since first tracked
$0.00$0.05$0.10$0.15$0.20Aug 5Oct 4Mar 5Sep 10$0.07$0.0145

Cost calculator

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Model IDs

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openai/gpt-oss-20b:freedarkbloom/gpt-oss-20bopenai/gpt-oss-20bopenai/gpt-oss-20b:batchwandb/openai/gpt-oss-20bdeepinfra/openai/gpt-oss-20bopenai/gpt-oss-20bovhcloud/gpt-oss-20bnovita/openai/gpt-oss-20btogether_ai/openai/gpt-oss-20bfireworks_ai/accounts/fireworks/models/gpt-oss-20btensormesh/openai/gpt-oss-20bdatabricks/databricks-gpt-oss-20bbedrock_mantle/openai.gpt-oss-20bgroq/openai/gpt-oss-20breplicate/openai/gpt-oss-20bcloudflare/@cf/openai/gpt-oss-20b

Frequently asked questions

gpt-oss-20b pricing, context and availability

Is gpt-oss-20b still available?

gpt-oss-20b was deprecated on 2026-09-15, but 15 serving providers still list it.

How much does gpt-oss-20b cost?

gpt-oss-20b costs $0.0145 per 1M input tokens from Darkbloom, and $0.07 per 1M output tokens from Darkbloom. Across 15 serving providers, input prices range from $0.0145 to $0.20 per 1M tokens.

What is the context window of gpt-oss-20b?

gpt-oss-20b accepts up to 131K tokens of context and can return up to 131K output tokens.

Which providers serve gpt-oss-20b?

gpt-oss-20b is available from 15 serving providers, each with its own pricing and model ID. Darkbloom is currently the cheapest.

What can gpt-oss-20b do?

gpt-oss-20b supports tool use, reasoning, prompt caching, structured output and web search.

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