gpt-oss-20b vs Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 23 October 2026.

openai · A · Open weights
Params
21.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
5.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
prism-ml · B · Open weights
Params
27.0 B
Context
—
30d
2.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gpt-oss-20b Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 21.5 B 27.0 B
Architecture GptOssForCausalLM —
Context length 131,072 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 5,779,711 2,484,375
Downloads all time 104.9 M 5.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-04 2026-09-16
API input price / 1M tokens $0.018 $0.075
API output price / 1M tokens $0.09 $0.50
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.11 $0.58
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.009 $0.038
AA Intelligence Index 10 —
AA Coding Index — —
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 32,768 32,768
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 $0.11
Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf $0.58

gpt-oss-20b is 5.3× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 88 days (28 Jul – 23 Oct)

8.6 M406 K
gpt-oss-20b Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf

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

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