gpt-oss-20b vs LFM2.5-24B-A2B

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
LiquidAI · B · Open weights
Params
24.0 B
Context
131,072
30d
18 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gpt-oss-20b LFM2.5-24B-A2B
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 21.5 B 24.0 B
Architecture GptOssForCausalLM Lfm2MoeForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — 16
Downloads 30d 5,764,154 18,100
Downloads all time 105.3 M 18 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-04 2026-10-12
API input price / 1M tokens $0.018 $0.05
API output price / 1M tokens $0.09 $0.70
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.11 $0.75
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.009 $0.025
AA Intelligence Index 10 —
AA Coding Index — —
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 32,768 8,192
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
LFM2.5-24B-A2B $0.75

gpt-oss-20b is 6.9× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

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

8.6 M13 K
gpt-oss-20b LFM2.5-24B-A2B

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
LFM2.5-24B-A2B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 110.8 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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