gpt-oss-20b vs Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512
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
mistralai · B · Open weights
Params
8.9 B
Context
—
30d
94 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | gpt-oss-20b | Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512 |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 21.5 B | 8.9 B |
| Architecture | GptOssForCausalLM | Mistral3ForConditionalGeneration |
| Context length | 131,072 | 262,144 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 11 |
| Downloads 30d | 5,656,843 | 93,976 |
| Downloads all time | 105.0 M | 1.2 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-08-04 | 2025-10-31 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.018 | $0.15 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.09 | $0.15 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.11 | $0.30 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.009 | $0.015 |
| AA Intelligence Index | 10 | 5.5 |
| AA Coding Index | — | 9.7 |
| AA Agentic Index | — | 0.6 |
| Max output tokens | 32,768 | 209,715 |
| API providers | 10 | 1 |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
gpt-oss-20b
$0.11
Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512
$0.30
gpt-oss-20b is 2.8× cheaper at list price.
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
8.6 M105 K
gpt-oss-20b
Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Ministral-3-8B-Instruct-2512 · fp16
24.8 GB / 24 GB
gpt-oss-20b · fp16 @ 128K ctx
82.4 GB / 24 GB