gpt-oss-20b vs Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

openai · A
Params
21.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
8.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
meta-llama · B
Params
70.6 B
Context
30d
813 K
llama3.1 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gpt-oss-20b Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct
Parameters 21.5 B 70.6 B
Architecture GptOssForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 llama3.1
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 8
Downloads 30d 8,616,555 813,492
Downloads all time 87.8 M 24.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-04 2024-07-16

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

8.6 M807 K
gpt-oss-20b Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct

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
Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct · fp16 166.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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