Using gpt-oss-20b on Featherless

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Featherless exposes gpt-oss-20b through model ID openai/gpt-oss-20b. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

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Quick Start

1
Create an account at Featherless and generate an API key.
2
Use the Featherless SDK or REST API to call openai/gpt-oss-20b — see the documentation for request format.
3
You'll be billed $0.04/1M input, $0.15/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

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Code Examples

Install

pip install openai

API key

FEATHERLESS_API_KEY

Model ID

openai/gpt-oss-20b

Use exact Featherless catalog id in modelProvider.providerModelId (HF-style org/name). Not interchangeable with LLM Reference slugs.

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.featherless.ai/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["FEATHERLESS_API_KEY"],
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="openai/gpt-oss-20b",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

Pricing on Featherless

Type	Price (per 1M)
Input tokens	$0.04
Output tokens	$0.15

Capabilities

JSON / Tool useStructured Outputs

About gpt-oss-20b

OpenAI open-weight model with 20 billion parameters. Lightweight, efficient text-only model with reasoning and function calling. Free for self-hosting. Released August 5, 2025.

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Model Specs

Released2025-08-05

Parameters20B

Context131k

ArchitectureDecoder Only

Knowledge cutoff2025-08