gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

Tool callingStructured outputReasoning

Hugging Face Website

Safety model for policy screening, moderation, and risk-aware routing workflows

Context: 131K
Released: 11mo ago
Parameters: 20B
Input / 1M tokens: $0.08
Output / 1M tokens: $0.30
Cached input / 1M tokens: $0.04

Sources:models.devOpenRouter

Benchmarks

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Specifications

Developer: OpenAI
Model family: GPT
Type: Language model
Predecessor: —
Successor: —
Released: October 29, 2025
Model ID: openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b
Openness: Open weights
License: —
Parameters: 20B
Input modalities: text
Output modalities: text
Modality: text->text
Native context: 128K
Tokenizer: GPT
Max output tokens: 66K
Hugging Face: openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b
Source freshness: Metadata synced Oct 8, 2026, 10:17 PM UTC

Open-weight builds

Ollama variants

Every published Ollama tag matched to this model, including parameter editions, instruction/base variants, and quantized builds.

2 builds

Variant	Parameters	Type	Quantization	Size	Context	Input
gpt-oss-safeguard:latest	20B	—	—	14 GB	128K	text
gpt-oss-safeguard:120b	120B	—	—	65 GB	128K	text

Additional source evidence

Source model: openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b
Source family: gpt-oss
Last updated: 2025-10-29
Model context: 131K
Model output limit: 131K
Open weights: Yes
File attachments: No
Reasoning: Yes
Tool calling: Yes
Structured output: Yes
Temperature control: Yes

Downloadable weights

Hugging Face

Complete source record (JSON)

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  "name": "GPT OSS Safeguard 20B",
  "description": "Safety model for policy screening, moderation, and risk-aware routing workflows",
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  "last_updated": "2025-10-29",
  "attachment": false,
  "reasoning": true,
  "tool_call": true,
  "structured_output": true,
  "temperature": true,
  "modalities": {
    "input": [
      "text"
    ],
    "output": [
      "text"
    ]
  },
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  },
  "release_date": "2025-10-29",
  "open_weights": true,
  "weights": [
    {
      "label": "Hugging Face",
      "url": "https://huggingface.co/openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b"
    }
  ]
}

Infrastructure

Provider availability

All providers

Provider	Endpoint	Context	Input /M tokens	Output /M tokens	Cached input /M tokens	Cache write /M tokens	Uptime 1d	Data handling
Groq	groq	131K	$0.08	$0.30	$0.04	—	100.00%	ZDR: Yes Training: Unknown Prompt logging: Unknown Retention: Unknown ZDR source Privacy policy Checked 2026-10-15

Provider data:OpenRouter

Text provenance

EU · product-scoped

OpenAI textGrain watermarking

In the EU, ChatGPT-generated text uses textGrain. OpenAI says API customers can opt in globally for select models, so watermarking depends on the product surface and configuration.

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