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gpt-oss-safeguard-20b fastruns locally

openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b is a safety reasoning model from OpenAI built upon gpt-oss-20b. This open-weight, 21B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model offers lower latency for safety tasks like content classification, LLM filtering, and trust...

Input / 1M

$0.075

USD per million tokens

Output / 1M

$0.30

USD per million tokens

Est. cost / token

$0.000000131

$0.13 per 1M, 3:1 mix

Context window

131K

max output 66K

Major features

Open weightsCachingReasoningJSON schemaTools

Task suitability (heuristic 1–5, not a benchmark)

  • coding3
  • reasoning3
  • math3
  • summarization4
  • extraction4
  • classification4
  • chat3
  • creative3
  • translation4
  • vision1
  • long context3
  • agentic3

Run it locally

Will it run on my machine? →
ollama run gpt-oss:20b
QuantizationQualityMemory needed (8K ctx)
Q2_Kpoor11.7 GB
Q3_K_Mfair13.3 GB
Q4_K_Mrecommendedgood16 GB
Q5_K_Mvery good18.3 GB
Q6_Kexcellent20.7 GB
Q8_0near-lossless26.2 GB
F16lossless47.4 GB

Estimates.

Price history

RecordedInputOutputCachedSource
2026-11-05 03:20$0.075$0.30$0.037openrouter

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Pricing (USD per 1M tokens)

Input
$0.075
Output
$0.30
Cached input
$0.037
Blended (3:1)
$0.13

Details

Company
OpenAI
Version
—
Family
GPT
Released
2025-10-29
Parameters
21.5B
Max output
66K
Open weights
Yes
Inputs
text
Last synced
29 min ago