gpt-oss-20b vs Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407

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
mistralai · B · Open weights
Params
12.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
191 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gpt-oss-20b Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 21.5 B 12.2 B
Architecture GptOssForCausalLM MistralForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 9
Downloads 30d 5,764,154 191,347
Downloads all time 105.3 M 10.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-04 2024-07-17
API input price / 1M tokens $0.018 $0.029
API output price / 1M tokens $0.09 $0.03
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.11 $0.059
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.009 —
AA Intelligence Index 10 —
AA Coding Index — —
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 32,768 16,384
API providers 10 5
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
Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 $0.059

Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 is 1.8× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

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

8.6 M191 K
gpt-oss-20b Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407

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
Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 · fp16 @ 128K ctx 83.8 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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