GPT OSS Safeguard 20B

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b is a safety reasoning model from OpenAI built upon gpt-oss-20b. This open-weight, 21B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model offers lower latency for safety tasks like content classification, LLM filtering, and trust & safety labeling.

Learn more about this model in OpenAI's gpt-oss-safeguard user guide.

openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

Organization: OpenAI
Family: gpt-oss
Providers: 7
Context: 131,072
Output limit: 131,072
Knowledge: —
Release: 2025-10-29
Updated: 2025-10-29
Weights: Open
Input: text
Output: text
Capabilities: Tools, Reasoning, Structured, Temperature

Providers

Compare every cataloged offer for this model, including its provider, route, token limits, price, and capabilities.

9 offers · USD per million tokens

Provider	Model ID	Context	Output	Input / output · 1M	Reasoning	Tools	Structured	Details
Amazon Bedrock	openai.gpt-oss-safeguard-20b	128,000	16,384	$0.07 / $0.20	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
Eden AI	groq/openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b	131,072	131,072	$0.075 / $0.30	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
Eden AI	amazon/openai.gpt-oss-safeguard-20b@us	128,000	131,072	$0.07 / $0.20	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
Eden AI	amazon/openai.gpt-oss-safeguard-20b	128,000	131,072	$0.07 / $0.20	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
Kilo Gateway	openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b	131,072	65,536	$0.075 / $0.30	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
Merge Gateway	openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b	4,096	4,096	$0.07 / $0.20	Yes	No	No	View
NanoGPT	openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b	128,000	16,384	$0.075 / $0.30	Yes	No	No	View
Groqvia OpenRouter	openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b unknown	131,072	65,536	$0.075 / $0.30	Yes	Yes	Yes	View
Vercel AI Gateway	openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b	128,000	16,000	$0.07 / $0.20	Yes	Yes	Yes	View

Prices and limits apply to each offer. A dash means the value is not provided. OpenRouter offers show the hosting provider and routing channel separately.

Pricing

Compare token rates and cache charges across available routes and hosting configurations.

USD per million tokens

Input from$0.07Per 1M input tokens

Output from$0.20Per 1M output tokens

Available offers9Across 7 providers

Lowest listed input and output prices across the offers above; they may belong to different providers. These are base rates, before conditional pricing, discounts or additional fees.

Endpoint price comparisonLatest observed snapshot · 1 lowest-priced configuration

InputOutput

Groqgroq

$0.075$0.30

openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20bObserved Oct 4, 2026, 11:31 AM UTC

Input: $0.075
Output: $0.30
Cache read: $0.0375

Hosting prices through OpenRouter All endpoints and cache rates

Endpoint	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Cache read / 1M	Cache write / 1M
Groqgroq	$0.075	$0.30	$0.0375	—

Each row is a hosting configuration. Open an offer in Providers for its full pricing conditions and additional fees. Endpoint observations may differ from the routing catalog's base price.

Performance

Review reported latency and output-throughput percentiles from the latest observed rolling window.

Latest 30-minute observation

Time to first token · milliseconds

Latency distributionRolling 30-minute snapshot · 1 endpoint

P50P75P90P99

Groqgroq

106–611.56 ms

All latency percentiles 1 endpoints

Endpoint	P50	P75	P90	P99
Groqgroq	106 ms	132 ms	201.4 ms	611.56 ms

Output throughput · tokens per second

Throughput distributionRolling 30-minute snapshot · 1 endpoint

P50P75P90P99

Groqgroq

677–1,218.31 t/s

All throughput percentiles 1 endpoints

Endpoint	P50	P75	P90	P99
Groqgroq	677 t/s	782 t/s	869 t/s	1,218.31 t/s

Percentiles describe the observed request distribution. These are snapshots of a rolling window, not a historical time series.

Uptime

Compare successful request rates across the latest 5-minute, 30-minute, and 24-hour observations.

Successful requests by window

Availability by endpointCurrent overlapping windows · 1 endpoint

Endpoint5 minutes30 minutes24 hours

GroqgroqObserved Oct 4, 2026, 11:31 AM UTC

99.23%

99.41%

99.33%

Reported by OpenRouter at the time of collection; rate-limited requests are excluded. A dash means no measurement was reported. This is not a live availability check.

Technical details & API

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Current route specifications

openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20bObserved Oct 4, 2026, 11:31 AM UTC

Context: 131,072
Maximum output: 65,536
Tokenizer: GPT
Input: text
Output: text
Moderation: No
Added to OpenRouter: 2025-10-29

Base URLhttps://openrouter.ai/api/v1

Model IDopenai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

Version IDopenai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

Weights IDopenai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

Reasoning

Required: Yes
Enabled by default: Not reported
Default effort: —
Supported efforts: —

Supported parameters

include_reasoning
max_tokens
reasoning
response_format
seed
stop
structured_outputs
temperature
tool_choice
tools
top_p

Frequently asked questions

Answers based on the model metadata and serving offers currently in the catalog.

How much does GPT OSS Safeguard 20B cost?

Listed rates start at $0.07 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens. Prices vary by provider and configuration; see Pricing for details.

Which providers offer GPT OSS Safeguard 20B?

There are 9 cataloged offers across 7 providers. Compare model IDs, prices and limits in Providers.

What is the context window?

The cataloged model context is 131,072 tokens. Each serving endpoint may apply a different limit.

Does it support tools and structured output?

Tool calling: Yes. Structured output: Yes. Support can vary by endpoint.

Resources

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Catalog history · 2 recorded revisions

Metadata observations since this model was first cataloged. These are not model release versions.

Sep 14, 2026 · bfaf83c1e283
Sep 12, 2026 · a0bb9c632852