gpt-oss-20b pricing.
prices as of · 43 providers · 49 prices
OpenAI's gpt-oss-20b holds 131k tokens of context and has a reasoning mode. Open weights, so anyone may host it, which is why the prices below differ so much.
gpt-oss-20b costs $0.03 in and $0.13 out per million tokens from OpenRouter; the cheapest price we can explain is $0.16 at Kilo Gateway, checked 16 Sept 2026.
OpenRouter list price
$0.22/M tokens
$0.03 in · $0.13 out
read · 94% below the market median
Cheapest price we can explain
$0.16/M tokens
$0.02 in · $0.10 out · 27% under list
Kilo Gatewayread
What it costs for your work
OpenRouter list price
$0.0258a month
cheapest we can explain · Kilo Gateway
$0.018a month
difference
$0.0078saved
A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.
Run it yourself
every plan that fits gpt-oss-20b →OpenAI publishes the weights, so you can run gpt-oss-20b on a server you rent by the month. It needs about 14 GB of RAM on a CPU, and the cheapest plan we track with that much and a disk included is OVHcloud VPS-4 2027 at $27.11/mo, streaming an estimated 4.4–8.7 tok/s.
Every provider selling gpt-oss-20b
Four groups, decided by the price and by what the provider publishes about it. Prices are per million tokens, and the share is that row against OpenRouter's price. OpenAI trained gpt-oss-20b and sells it on no catalog we read, so the price every row is measured against is OpenRouter's.
Cheaper, and we know why
6 pricesBelow list, with a published reason: hosting the open weights, a regional price list, credits, a stated discount.
$0.02 / $0.10in / out per M
0.73×of list price
- Darkbloom
Serves the open weights at fp8, a lower precision than the maker's, so not quite the same product.
fp8 precision$0.02 / $0.10in / out per M
0.73×of list price
AkashMLServes the open weights at fp4, a lower precision than the maker's, so not quite the same product.
fp4 precision$0.02 / $0.10in / out per M
0.73×of list price
Nous PortalResells OpenRouter's catalog at 0.80× the listed price, funded by a subscription whose credits carry a 10% bonus.
$0.02 / $0.10in / out per M
0.73×of list price
$0.02 / $0.11in / out per M
0.77×of list price
DekaLLM3% under the list price, an ordinary reseller margin.
bf16 precision$0.03 / $0.14in / out per M
1.03×of list price
Same price as the maker
39 pricesThe same price the maker charges, sold by someone else.
$0.03 / $0.13in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Weights & BiasesThe same price OpenRouter charges.
$0.03 / $0.13in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.03 / $0.13in / out per M
1.00×of list price
CoreWeaveThe same price OpenRouter charges.
fp4 precision$0.03 / $0.13in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.03 / $0.14in / out per M
1.05×of list price
$0.03 / $0.14in / out per M
1.05×of list price
$0.03 / $0.14in / out per M
1.05×of list price
$0.03 / $0.15in / out per M
1.09×of list price
$0.04 / $0.15in / out per M
1.23×of list price
$0.04 / $0.15in / out per M
1.23×of list price
$0.04 / $0.15in / out per M
1.23×of list price
$0.04 / $0.15in / out per M
1.23×of list price
$0.04 / $0.18in / out per M
1.36×of list price
$0.04 / $0.18in / out per M
1.36×of list price
$0.04 / $0.19in / out per M
1.41×of list price
Cortecs54% above OpenRouter's price.Routes only to EU-hosted providers, prices in euros, and adds a flat 5% fee.
131k context hereCortecs ↗$0.05 / $0.17in / out per M
1.42×of list price
- Clarifai
50% above OpenRouter's price.
$0.04 / $0.18in / out per M
1.43×of list price
Merge Gateway33% above OpenRouter's price.
$0.04 / $0.20in / out per M
1.45×of list price
$0.05 / $0.18in / out per M
1.50×of list price
Helicone67% above OpenRouter's price.
$0.05 / $0.20in / out per M
1.59×of list price
$0.05 / $0.20in / out per M
1.59×of list price
$0.05 / $0.20in / out per M
1.59×of list price
$0.05 / $0.20in / out per M
1.59×of list price
$0.05 / $0.20in / out per M
1.59×of list price
$0.07 / $0.15in / out per M
1.64×of list price
showing the 25 cheapest of 39 · every row in the open dataset
Cheaper, and nobody says why
2 prices · never rankedBelow list on a closed model with nothing to account for it. Shown, never ranked, never a pick.
FeatherlessWe could not read this provider's prices reliably, so the row is listed but never ranked.
$0.04 / $0.15in / out per M
1.23×of list price
KenariWe could not read this provider's prices reliably, so the row is listed but never ranked.
$0.06 / $0.27in / out per M
2.09×of list price
Given away with limits
2 free tiers · never rankedThese providers give gpt-oss-20b away inside a quota of their own. A limit is not a price, so none of them counts as cheapest here or anywhere else on the site.
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Frequently asked
- Who sells gpt-oss-20b cheapest?
- Kilo Gateway, at $0.02 in and $0.10 out per million tokens, read on 16 Sept 2026. Routes to a host serving the open weights; precision not disclosed.
- Is gpt-oss-20b open weights?
- Yes. OpenAI publishes the weights, so anyone may host gpt-oss-20b, which is why 43 providers sell it and why their prices differ so much.
- How much context does gpt-oss-20b hold?
- 131,072 tokens in one call, which is about 131k, and it can call your own functions.
- How does gpt-oss-20b compare with the rest of the market?
- At $0.22 per million tokens, OpenRouter's price is 94% below the $3.55 median across the 337 text models we track.