gpt-oss-20b vs Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct

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
Qwen · B
Params
72.7 B
Context
32,768
30d
435 K

Specification comparison

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Specification gpt-oss-20b Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct
Parameters 21.5 B 72.7 B
Architecture GptOssForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 8,616,555 434,617
Downloads all time 87.8 M 8.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-04 2024-09-16

Download trend

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

8.6 M435 K
gpt-oss-20b Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct

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
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct · fp16 171.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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