gpt-oss-20b vs Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501-AWQ

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
stelterlab · B
Params
23.6 B
Context
32,768
30d
255 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gpt-oss-20b Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501-AWQ
Parameters 21.5 B 23.6 B
Architecture GptOssForCausalLM MistralForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 10
Downloads 30d 8,616,555 254,550
Downloads all time 87.8 M 2.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-04 2025-01-30

Download trend

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

8.6 M236 K
gpt-oss-20b Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501-AWQ

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501-AWQ · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
gpt-oss-20b · fp16 @ 128K ctx 82.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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