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OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b API Pricing — $0.018 Input / $0.090 Output per 1M Tokens

OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b by OpenAI — $0.018 input / $0.090 output per 1M tokens via OpenRouter. Context: 131K tokens. Pricing last updated Oct 29, 2026.

Input / 1M tokens
$0.018
Output / 1M tokens
$0.090
Provider
OpenAI
Context window
131K tokens
Via
OpenRouter

Cost at common usage volumes

Usage Daily Monthly
Chatbot (100/day)$0.012$0.36
Small app (1K/day)$0.063$1.89
Mid-scale (10K/day)$0.810$24.30
Large scale (100K/day)$18.00$540.00
Model ID: openai/gpt-oss-20b
Data source: OpenRouter public API — updated Oct 29, 2026.
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About OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b

OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b is an LLM developed by OpenAI. Input costs $0.018 per million tokens and output costs $0.090 per million tokens via OpenRouter. It supports a context window of 131K tokens.

Pricing Details

Via the OpenRouter API:

  • Input tokens: $0.018 per 1 million tokens
  • Output tokens: $0.090 per 1 million tokens

A token is roughly 0.75 words. For context: a typical user message of 100 words is approximately 133 tokens; a 500-word system prompt is about 650 tokens.

How Much Does OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b Cost?

For a typical chatbot application (1,000 requests/day, 1,000 prompt tokens and 500 output tokens per request):

  • Daily cost: $0.0630
  • Monthly cost: $1.890

Accessing OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b via OpenRouter

OpenRouter provides a unified API for 200+ LLMs including OpenAI: gpt-oss-20b. You can use it with any OpenAI-compatible SDK by setting the base URL to https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 and using your OpenRouter API key. The model ID is openai/gpt-oss-20b.

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