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OpenAI · gpt-oss

gpt-oss-20b

Open weightsGenerally availableApache-2.0

OpenAI's small open-weights MoE reasoning model (Apache-2.0) for local and edge use.

AA Intelligence
9#105 of 142
Price
Self-host
Output speed
160tok/s
Context window
131K tokens

Composite indexes

  • Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index#105 of 142
    9independentAA Intelligence Index v4.3.2, highArtificial Analysis: gpt-oss-20b (high) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 58

Coding

  • Terminal-Bench 4.0#61 of 88
    0%independentTerminal-Bench 4.0 (AA harness), highArtificial Analysis: gpt-oss-20b (high) ↗

    Leader: Claude Mythos 5.1 at 60.9%

  • Terminal-Bench 2.x#87 of 103
    13.9%independentTerminal-Bench 2.1 (AA harness), highArtificial Analysis: gpt-oss-20b (high) ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5.1 at 91.4%

  • SciCode#72 of 94
    38.9%independenthighArtificial Analysis: gpt-oss-20b (high) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.9%

  • LiveCodeBench#11 of 56
    77.7%independentAA, highArtificial Analysis: gpt-oss-20b (high) ↗

    Leader: Fugu at 92.9%

Agents and tool use

  • GDPval-AA#85 of 103
    327independentGDPval-AA, highArtificial Analysis: gpt-oss-20b (high) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 1846

  • τ²-Bench#40 of 88
    60.2%independenttelecom (AA), highArtificial Analysis: gpt-oss-20b (high) ↗

    Leader: GLM-5.2 at 99.1%

Reasoning and knowledge

  • Humanity’s Last Exam#95 of 147
    11%independentno tools (AA), highArtificial Analysis: gpt-oss-20b (high) ↗

    Leader: Claude Opus 5.5 at 61.4%

  • GPQA Diamond#100 of 142
    68.8%independentAA, highArtificial Analysis: gpt-oss-20b (high) ↗

    Leader: GPT-6 Astra at 96.1%

  • CritPt#66 of 139
    1.4%independenthighArtificial Analysis: gpt-oss-20b (high) ↗

    Leader: GPT-5.6 Sol at 32.3%

Vision and long context

  • AA Long Context Reasoning#102 of 139
    34.7%independenthighArtificial Analysis: gpt-oss-20b (high) ↗

    Leader: Kimi K3 at 88.7%

Human preference

  • LMArena Text#54 of 54
    1317independentgpt-oss-20b, style control default, vote cutoff 2026-09-13LMArena Text leaderboard ↗

    Leader: Claude Fable 5 at 1506

Other published results

ResultScoreReported bySource
aime-2025 · AA, high89.3%independentArtificial Analysis: gpt-oss-20b (high) ↗
AA-Omniscience Index · high-63 index (-100 to 100)independentArtificial Analysis: gpt-oss-20b (high) ↗
AutomationBench-AA (partial score) · high0.2%independentArtificial Analysis: gpt-oss-20b (high) ↗

Specs

Released
August 5, 2025
Parameters
21B total, 3.6B active
Size class
10 to 40B
Input
text
Output
text
Context
131K tokens
Max output
131K tokens
First token
0.80s
  • Speed: Artificial Analysis: gpt-oss-20b (high) (median output speed; TTFT is time to first chunk incl. reasoning) ↗

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