gpt-oss-20b vs deepseek-v4-flash-0731-spark

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
0xSero · B · Open weights
Params
60.3 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
171 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gpt-oss-20b deepseek-v4-flash-0731-spark
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights
Parameters 21.5 B 60.3 B
Architecture GptOssForCausalLM DeepseekV4ForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 1,048,576
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 5,764,154 171,151
Downloads all time 105.3 M 386 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-04 2026-08-01
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

90 days of snapshots recorded — chart in 0 days.

105.3 M
gpt-oss-20b · all-time downloads
386 K
deepseek-v4-flash-0731-spark · all-time downloads

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
deepseek-v4-flash-0731-spark · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 1,276.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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