gpt-oss-20b vs c4ai-command-r-v01

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

openai · A · Open weights
Params
21.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
5.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
CohereLabs · B · Open weights
Params
35.0 B
Context
—
30d
199 K
cc-by-nc-4.0 · non-commercial

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gpt-oss-20b c4ai-command-r-v01
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights
Parameters 21.5 B 35.0 B
Architecture GptOssForCausalLM CohereForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 —
Licence apache-2.0 cc-by-nc-4.0
Commercial use Allowed Not allowed
Languages — 10
Downloads 30d 5,764,154 199,118
Downloads all time 105.3 M 683 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-04 2024-03-11
API input price / 1M tokens $0.018 not on OpenRouter
API output price / 1M tokens $0.09 not on OpenRouter
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.11 not on OpenRouter
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.009 not on OpenRouter
AA Intelligence Index 10 not on OpenRouter
AA Coding Index — not on OpenRouter
AA Agentic Index — not on OpenRouter
Max output tokens 32,768 not on OpenRouter
API providers 10 not on OpenRouter
Tool calling Yes not on OpenRouter
Reasoning mode Yes not on OpenRouter

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

gpt-oss-20b $0.11

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

8.6 M199 K
gpt-oss-20b c4ai-command-r-v01

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

gpt-oss-20b · fp16 @ 128K ctx 82.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
c4ai-command-r-v01 · fp16 82.7 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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