Model comparison
GPT-OSS 20B (Free) vs GPT-4.1
Capability radar, value bars, and side-by-side posture.
GPT-OSS 20B (Free)
Not scored
value score
GPT-4.1
90
value score
GPT-OSS 20B (Free) ctx
—
GPT-4.1 ctx
1.0M
Capability radar
Value · context · multimodal · openness · speed posture
Value head-to-head
- GPT-4.190
Attribute tape
| Field | GPT-OSS 20B (Free) | GPT-4.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | OpenAI | OpenAI |
| Context | — | 1.0M |
| Modalities | Text, Code, Image | |
| Openness | — | Proprietary Model |
| Speed | — | — |
| Price | — | $2/1M in · $8/1M out |
| Value score | — | 90 |
| Summary | GPT-OSS 20B is OpenAI's open-weight reasoning model released under Apache 2.0, featuring 21B total parameters with 3.6B active per forward pass via a Mixture-of-Experts architecture. It is designed for local or consumer-grade hardware deployment and supports tool use, function calling, structured outputs, and configurable reasoning effort. | Long-context GPT for developer workflows. |