gpt-oss-20b vs Laguna-XS-2.1

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 23 October 2026.

openai · A · Open weights
Params
21.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
5.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
poolside · B · Open weights
Params
33.4 B
Context
262,144
30d
478 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gpt-oss-20b Laguna-XS-2.1
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 21.5 B 33.4 B
Architecture GptOssForCausalLM LagunaForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 openmdw-1.1
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 5,779,711 477,664
Downloads all time 104.9 M 583 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-04 2026-06-20
API input price / 1M tokens $0.018 $0.06
API output price / 1M tokens $0.09 $0.12
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.11 $0.18
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.009 $0.03
AA Intelligence Index 10 —
AA Coding Index — —
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 32,768 32,768
API providers 10 1
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

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

gpt-oss-20b $0.11
Laguna-XS-2.1 $0.18

gpt-oss-20b is 1.7× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 88 days (28 Jul – 23 Oct)

8.6 M183 K
gpt-oss-20b Laguna-XS-2.1

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
Laguna-XS-2.1 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 234.6 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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