Using gpt-oss-20b on Vercel AI Gateway

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Vercel AI Gateway 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 Vercel AI Gateway and generate an API key.
2
Use the Vercel AI Gateway SDK or REST API to call openai/gpt-oss-20b — see the documentation for request format.
3
You'll be billed $0.05/1M input, $0.20/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

API Portal Documentation Pricing Model Card

Code Examples

Install

pip install openai

API key

AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY

Model ID

openai/gpt-oss-20b

creator/model-name e.g. kwaipilot/kat-coder-pro-v2

import os
from openai import OpenAI

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

Pricing on Vercel AI Gateway

Type	Price (per 1M)
Input tokens	$0.05
Output tokens	$0.20

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

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