gpt-oss-20b vs North-Mini-Code-1.0

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
CohereLabs · B · Open weights
Params
30.5 B
Context
500,000
30d
7 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gpt-oss-20b North-Mini-Code-1.0
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 21.5 B 30.5 B
Architecture GptOssForCausalLM Cohere2MoeForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 500,000
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 5,764,154 7,070
Downloads all time 105.3 M 88 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-04 2026-06-05
API input price / 1M tokens $0.018 Free
API output price / 1M tokens $0.09 Free
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.11 Free
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.009 —
AA Intelligence Index 10 9.9
AA Coding Index — 36.5
AA Agentic Index — 1.1
Max output tokens 32,768 64,000
API providers 10 —
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
North-Mini-Code-1.0 Free

Download trend

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

8.6 M7 K
gpt-oss-20b North-Mini-Code-1.0

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
North-Mini-Code-1.0 · fp16 @ 488K ctx 346.7 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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