gpt-oss-20b vs NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-BF16

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

openai · A · Open weights
Params
21.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
5.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
nvidia · B · Open weights
Params
31.6 B
Context
262,144
30d
1.6 M

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gpt-oss-20b NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-BF16
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 21.5 B 31.6 B
Architecture GptOssForCausalLM NemotronHForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — 6
Downloads 30d 5,830,063 1,586,743
Downloads all time 108.5 M 11.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-04 2025-12-04
API input price / 1M tokens $0.03 $0.06
API output price / 1M tokens $0.13 $0.24
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.16 $0.30
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.03 $0.012
AA Intelligence Index — —
AA Coding Index 20.7 14.4
AA Agentic Index 1.2 1
Max output tokens 117,964 235,929
API providers 10 1
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

gpt-oss-20b $0.16
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-BF16 $0.30

gpt-oss-20b is 1.9× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

8.1 M648 K
gpt-oss-20b NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-BF16

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
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-BF16 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 221.6 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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