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gpt-oss-20b

gpt-oss-20b is an open-weight model from OpenAI, released Aug 5, 2025. It ranks #262 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1288. It costs $0.018 per million input tokens and $0.09 per million output tokens, with a 128K-token context window.

LMArena text1288+0 in 30 days
Rank#262/351
95% interval1281–1294
Votes10.4K
Developer
OpenAI
Released
Aug 5, 2025
Context window
128K
Price in / out, per 1M tokens
$0.018 / $0.09
Weights
Open · Apache 2.0
Inputs
Text
Reasoning
Yes
Tool use
Yes
Hugging Face downloads, 30 days
5.8M
Hugging Face likes
5.2K
gpt-oss-20b, LMArena text rating over time
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Latestgpt-oss-20b 1288

The rating LMArena published at each update since Aug 7, 2025. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScore barAccuracyRankCost / test
LiveCodeBenchCoding80.39%70 / 143$0.07 / $0.3
MedQAMedicine82.88%63 / 92$0.07 / $0.3
GPQA DiamondReasoning68.94%99 / 138$0.07 / $0.3
MMLU-ProReasoning71.64%118 / 138$0.07 / $0.3
AIMEReasoning86.04%34 / 96$0.07 / $0.3

Vals AI, as of Oct 24, 2026.

LMArena, by category

LeaderboardRatingRankVotes
TextLMArena1288262 / 35110.4K
CodingLMArena1307256 / 3462.1K
MathLMArena1317228 / 339678
Creative writingLMArena1201307 / 3491.2K
Instruction followingLMArena1236291 / 3512.5K
Hard promptsLMArena1274264 / 3514.7K
Multi-turnLMArena1268279 / 3491.8K
Long queriesLMArena1250291 / 3302.1K
ExpertLMArena1258250 / 305506
Legal and governmentIndustries1280272 / 325678
Medicine and healthcareIndustries1310237 / 325564
Business and financeIndustries1283250 / 3441.8K
ChineseLanguages1315241 / 328665
SpanishLanguages1268236 / 249284
GermanLanguages1255227 / 261217
JapaneseLanguages1244189 / 236246

LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown.

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OpenAI

The lab behind GPT and ChatGPT, which brought large language models to hundreds of millions of people. Founded 2015, based in San Francisco. openai.com

Questions

Who makes gpt-oss-20b?

gpt-oss-20b is made by OpenAI, founded 2015 and based in San Francisco.

How much does gpt-oss-20b cost?

$0.018 per million input tokens and $0.09 per million output tokens, at its provider’s list price.

What is gpt-oss-20b’s context window?

128K tokens (131,072).

How does gpt-oss-20b rank?

#262 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1288 (95% interval 1281–1294) from 10,417 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.

Is gpt-oss-20b open source?

gpt-oss-20b has open weights under the Apache 2.0 license, downloadable from Hugging Face (openai/gpt-oss-20b).

Sources

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