How much does gpt-oss-safeguard-20b cost?

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b costs $0.07 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens on standard pricing. A workload of 20M input and 5M output tokens a month is about $3.00.

What is the context length of gpt-oss-safeguard-20b?

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b accepts up to 131,072 tokens (131K) of input and can return up to 65,536 tokens in one response.

Does gpt-oss-safeguard-20b support tool calling and structured outputs?

Yes, gpt-oss-safeguard-20b supports function/tool calling and structured (JSON) outputs. Supported tools: Function calling, Structured outputs, JSON mode, Reasoning, Deterministic seed, Prompt caching.

What inputs and outputs does gpt-oss-safeguard-20b support?

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b accepts Text as input and produces Text as output.

When was gpt-oss-safeguard-20b released?

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b was released by OpenAI in 2025-10-29.

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

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gpt-oss-safeguard-20b is a safety reasoning model from OpenAI built upon gpt-oss-20b. This open-weight, 21B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model offers lower latency for safety tasks like content classification, LLM filtering, and trust... Built by OpenAI.

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Input price

$0.07

per 1M tokens · Standard

Output price

$0.30

per 1M tokens · Standard

Input limit

131K

tokens

Output limit

66K

tokens

Input formats

TextImageVideoAudioPDF

Output formats

TextImageVideoAudioPDF

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Input20M tokens

Output5M tokens

$3.00/month

Standard pricing

Overview

What is gpt-oss-safeguard-20b?

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b is a text & reasoning model from OpenAI. gpt-oss-safeguard-20b is a safety reasoning model from OpenAI built upon gpt-oss-20b. This open-weight, 21B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model offers lower latency for safety tasks like content classification, LLM filtering, and trust... Its 131K context window and $0.07 input price make it a candidate for cost-sensitive, high-throughput applications.

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gpt-oss-safeguard-20b pricing

Pricing is based on token usage. Provider-specific caching, batch, regional, and tool charges may affect the final cost.

Input · Standard

$0.07

Per 1M tokens

Cached input · Standard

$0.04

Per 1M tokens

Capabilities

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b Tools

Tools available when using gpt-oss-safeguard-20b through supported provider APIs.

Function calling

Supported

Structured outputs

Supported

JSON mode

Supported

Reasoning

Supported

Built-in web search

Not supported

Log probabilities

Not supported

Deterministic seed

Supported

Parallel tool calls

Not supported

Prompt caching

Supported

Strengths and limitations

Strengths

Low input cost at $0.07 per million tokens suits high-volume workloads.
A 131K context window covers most focused application workflows.
Supports text & reasoning workloads in one model.

Limitations

Generated tokens cost 4× more than input tokens, which matters for verbose responses.
The 131K context window is smaller than several long-context alternatives.
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