gpt-oss-20b (low) API Provider Benchmarking & Analysis
This analysis is intended to support you in choosing the best API provider of gpt-oss-20b (low) for your use-case.
Fastest
Groq
Google Vertex
CoreWeave
Novita
AmazonOutput speed
Total 8 providers
Lowest Latency
GroqGoogle VertexCoreWeaveNovitaAmazonTime to first answer token
Total 8 providers
Lowest Price
CoreWeaveNovita
Lightning AIGoogle VertexAmazonBlended price (per 1M tokens)
Total 8 providers
gpt-oss-20b (low) is available through 8 API providers, each offering different performance characteristics and pricing. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across providers.
- For output speed, the top providers are Groq (912.6 t/s), Google Vertex (378.7 t/s), and CoreWeave (208.8 t/s). Speed varies significantly across providers, with a 765% difference between the fastest and slowest.
- For latency, Groq (3.00s), Google Vertex (5.60s), and CoreWeave (10.18s) offer the lowest time to first answer token.
- For pricing, CoreWeave (0.04), Novita (0.05), and Lightning AI (0.07) offer the lowest blended prices per 1M tokens. Prices vary up to 5.3x across providers.
- Groq offers the best performance with both the highest speed and lowest latency. For cost optimization, CoreWeave provides the most competitive pricing.
Highlights
Update: Default performance benchmarking workload has updated to 10k input tokens to better reflect production use cases. You can still select different workloads above.
Pricing
Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output
Pricing: Blended Price
Output Speed vs. Price
Speed
Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)
Output Speed: gpt-oss-20b (low)
Latency vs. Output Speed
Latency
Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token
Time to First Answer Token
End-to-End Response Time
Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed
End-to-End Response Time
Key Comparison Metrics & API Features
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about gpt-oss-20b (low) providers
gpt-oss-20b (low) is available through 8 API providers: Groq, Lightning AI, Hyperbolic, CoreWeave, Cloudflare, Amazon, Novita, and Google Vertex. Each provider offers different performance characteristics and pricing.
gpt-oss-20b (low) is currently available through 8 API providers that we benchmark and track.
The fastest providers for gpt-oss-20b (low) by output speed are Groq (912.6 t/s), Google Vertex (378.7 t/s), and CoreWeave (208.8 t/s). Output speed measures how quickly tokens are generated after the model starts responding.
The providers with the lowest time to first answer token for gpt-oss-20b (low) are Groq (3.00s), Google Vertex (5.60s), and CoreWeave (10.18s). Lower latency means faster initial response time.
The most affordable providers for gpt-oss-20b (low) by blended price are CoreWeave ($0.04 per 1M tokens), Novita ($0.05 per 1M tokens), and Lightning AI ($0.07 per 1M tokens). Blended price uses a 7:2:1 cache hit/input/output token ratio.
The providers with the lowest input token pricing for gpt-oss-20b (low) are CoreWeave ($0.03 per 1M input tokens), Novita ($0.04 per 1M input tokens), and Lightning AI ($0.05 per 1M input tokens).
The providers with the lowest output token pricing for gpt-oss-20b (low) are Hyperbolic ($0.10 per 1M output tokens), CoreWeave ($0.13 per 1M output tokens), and Novita ($0.15 per 1M output tokens).
Prices for gpt-oss-20b (low) vary up to 5.3x across providers. The most affordable is CoreWeave at $0.04 per 1M tokens, while Cloudflare charges $0.21 per 1M tokens.
All 8 providers of gpt-oss-20b (low) support JSON mode for structured output.
6 of 8 providers support function calling for gpt-oss-20b (low): Groq, Lightning AI, CoreWeave, Cloudflare, Amazon, and Google Vertex.
When choosing a provider for gpt-oss-20b (low), consider: output speed (for throughput-intensive tasks), latency (for interactive applications requiring quick first responses), pricing (for cost-sensitive workloads), and API features like JSON mode or function calling.
Yes, provider performance can vary over time due to infrastructure changes, load balancing, and updates. We continuously benchmark all providers and display historical performance trends in the "Over Time" charts.
For information about gpt-oss-20b (low)'s intelligence, capabilities, modalities, and how it compares to other models, see the model overview page. View model overview