gpt-oss-20b vs Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

openai · A · Open weights
Params
21.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
5.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
NousResearch · B · Open weights
Params
70.6 B
Context
131,072
30d
2 K
llama3 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gpt-oss-20b Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 21.5 B 70.6 B
Architecture GptOssForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 llama3
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 5,656,843 2,075
Downloads all time 105.0 M 334 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-04 2024-07-29
API input price / 1M tokens $0.018 $0.70
API output price / 1M tokens $0.09 $0.70
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.11 $1.40
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.009 —
AA Intelligence Index 10 6.7
AA Coding Index — —
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 32,768 16,384
API providers 10 1
Tool calling Yes No
Reasoning mode Yes No

API cost

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

gpt-oss-20b $0.11
Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B $1.40

gpt-oss-20b is 13.0× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

8.6 M2 K
gpt-oss-20b Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B

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
Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-70B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 325.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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