GPT-OSS 20B vs Kimi K3
Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison
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Compare GPT-OSS 20B by OpenAI against Kimi K3 by Moonshot AI across real-world coding, reasoning, token economics, and latency.
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GPT-OSS 20B
Raisonnement open sourceun ouvert-weight GPT modèle de raisonnement pour auto-hébergé agents et controllable déploiements.
$0.10 / 1M
$0.50 / 1M
131.1K tokens
32.5%
Kimi K3
Raisonneur open source de 2.8TLe géant modèle MoE open source de 2,8T de Moonshot AI avec une fenêtre de contexte de 1 million de tokens et des capacités révolutionnaires de codage.
$0.00 / 1M
$0.00 / 1M
1.05M tokens
74.5%
Différences Clés en un Coup d’Œil
- Kimi K3 is 1.0x cheaper for API usage (input + output tokens combined).
- Kimi K3 has a larger context window (1M vs 131K tokens).
- GPT-OSS 20B is faster at 160 tok/s vs 58 tok/s.
- Kimi K3 leads on SWE-bench coding (74.5% vs 32.5%).
| Caractéristique | GPT-OSS 20B | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
Intelligence Index Composite reasoning & knowledge score (0-100) | 46 | 93 |
Provider | OpenAI | Moonshot AI |
Input Price Cost per million input tokens | $0.10 / 1M | $0.00 / 1M |
Output Price Cost per million output tokens | $0.50 / 1M | $0.00 / 1M |
Blended Price Weighted 7:2:1 cache:input:output per 1M | $0.08 / 1M | $0.00 / 1M |
Context Window Maximum input + output tokens | 131.1K tokens~197 A4 pages of text | 1.05M tokens~1,573 A4 pages of text |
Max Output Tokens Per single request | 33K | 131K |
Throughput Speed Tokens generated per second | 160 tok/s | 58 tok/s |
SWE-bench Verified Real-world software engineering | 32.5% | 74.5% |
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level reasoning | 55% | 79% |
Cached Input Price Prompt caching discount per 1M tokens | $0.01 / 1M | $0.00 / 1M |
Qui gagne où ?
At-a-glance decision frameworkScores de Benchmarks Vérifiés
Official evaluation metrics verified by independent third-party research labs.
Industry benchmark evaluating real-world GitHub issue resolution and multi-file debugging.
Challenging questions created by domain experts to test complex PhD-level reasoning.
Hardened reasoning and academic knowledge benchmark with reduced lucky-guess probability.
Crowdsourced human preference evaluation based on blind, head-to-head model battles.
Extremely difficult, closed-ended questions spanning the frontier of human expert knowledge.
Autonomous multi-step tasks executed inside a real command-line terminal environment.
Research-grade coding problems drawn from real scientific and numerical workloads.
Contamination-free competitive programming problems collected continuously over time.
American Invitational Mathematics Examination — multi-step Olympiad-level reasoning.
Accuracy when reasoning over very large inputs that fill the model context window.
Tokens emitted per second during active generation streaming.
Latence et Temps de Réponse
Time to first token (TTFT) and estimated end-to-end response time for a typical 500-token response.
Simulateur Interactif de Coût de Tokens
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GPT-OSS 20B · Strengths & Key Advantages
- à poids ouverts — run il fully sur your own matériel
- petit enough pour un laptop ou unique grand public GPU
- Cheap sur hosted providers et supports appel d'outils
- fonctionne comfortably sur grand public matériel
Considerations & Trade-offs
- Clearly weaker que de pointe modèles sur hard raisonnement
- texte-seulement — no vision ou audio entrée
- Needs careful prompt tuning à reach son meilleur sortie
Kimi K3 · Strengths & Key Advantages
- Largest à poids ouverts modèle de fondation dans existence (2.8T paramètres)
- 1480 LMSYS Chatbot Arena Elo rivaling propriétaire fermé de pointe leaders
- complet 1M token fenêtre de contexte paired avec massif 131K max sortie tokens
Considerations & Trade-offs
- Extreme matériel prerequisites (distributed multinœud cluster déploiement)
- génère extensive raisonnement traces qui demand careful token économique management
Token Use & Task Economics
Estimated cost and token consumption to complete one representative agentic task.
| Metric | GPT-OSS 20B | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
Cost per Task Estimated USD to finish one task | $0.09 | $2.00 |
Output Tokens / Task Tokens generated per task | 40K | 35K |
Reasoning Tokens / Task Thinking tokens burned per task | 18K | 18K |
Spécifications Techniques
Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.
| Caractéristique | GPT-OSS 20B | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Official API Model ID (SDK) | gpt-oss-20b | kimi-k3 |
| API Protocol | OpenAI Responses API & Chat Completions v1 | OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI |
| Release Date | 2025-08 | 2026-07 |
| Knowledge Cutoff | June 2024 | March 2026 |
| Architecture | Sparse MoE transformer with reasoning | Colossus-Scale Multimodal Sparse Mixture-of-Experts |
| Parameters | 21B (3.6B active MoE) | 2.8T total (MoE) |
| Enterprise Rate Limits (RPM / TPM) | Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud | Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud |
| Long-Context Tier (>128K/200K) | Flat rate ($0.1/1M in) across full 131K window | Free across full context window (only KV-cache VRAM scales) |
| Prompt Cache Policy & TTL | Automatic prefix caching at $0.01/1M (no extra cache-write fee) | Automatic prefix KV-caching in vLLM / SGLang (0 cost) |
| Computer Use / GUI Agent | API / CLI Tool-Use & DOM Agent ready (no raw pixel desktop click loop) | Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops) |
| MCP & Parallel Tool Calling | Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema | Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema |
| Web Search Grounding & Sandbox | Native Web Search tool + Hosted Code Interpreter & File Search RAG | Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools |
| Official Fine-Tuning Support | Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory) | Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory) |
| Multimodal Token Billing | Text BPE (~4 chars/token) | Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile) |
| Quantization & Min GPU VRAM | BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 13 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 45 GB VRAM (Native BF16) | BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0) · 1736 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 6020 GB VRAM (Native BF16) |
| Safety & Frontier Classification | OpenAI Preparedness Framework Audited & System Card Published | Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma) |
| Enterprise Compliance (ZDR/HIPAA/SOC2) | 100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control | 100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control |
| Input Modalities | text | text, vision |
| Output Modalities | text | text |
GPT-OSS 20B vs Kimi K3: Réponses Rapides (FAQ)
Which is more intelligent, GPT-OSS 20B or Kimi K3?
Kimi K3 is more intelligent. It scores 93 compared with 46 on the composite Intelligence Index.
Which model is faster?
GPT-OSS 20B is faster, generating 160 tokens per second compared with 58 tokens per second.
Which model is cheaper to run?
Kimi K3 is cheaper at $0.00 per 1M tokens blended, compared with $0.08 (7:2:1 cache:input:output ratio).
Which model has lower latency?
GPT-OSS 20B has lower latency, with a time to first token of 0.26s compared with 0.72s.
Which model has a larger context window?
Kimi K3 has a larger context window, supporting 1.05M tokens compared with 131.1K tokens.
Verdict
Choose GPT-OSS 20B for auto-hébergé agents, sur-premise déploiements et privacy-sensitive travail, or choose Kimi K3 for audits de bases de code à contexte long, analyse de dépôts complets et tâches agentiques autonomes.
Questions fréquentes
Which is cheaper: GPT-OSS 20B or Kimi K3?+
GPT-OSS 20B costs $0.1/1M input and $0.5/1M output tokens, while Kimi K3 costs $0/1M input and $0/1M output tokens.
Which model has a larger context window: GPT-OSS 20B or Kimi K3?+
GPT-OSS 20B supports 131K tokens whereas Kimi K3 supports 1.0M tokens.
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