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gpt oss safeguard 20B
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RANKED #193 OF 271 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #307 OF 6,567 · VIBE SCORE 5.5 · 94 VOICES
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
HAPPY5.7
94 mentions
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0 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 97 voices
TOO QUIET
Not enough weekly voices to call a trend yet.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download gpt oss safeguard 20B once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
21B total parameters (3.6B active MoE), a standard 4-bit / MXFP4 quant is about 13 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
16 GB VRAM
~$450 NEWMXFP4 / Q4 quant, ~30 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
Apple Mac mini M4 Pro
24 GB UNIFIED MEMORY
~$1399 NEWQ4 or Q8 quant, ~40 tok/s, 32k context
- FULL POWER
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
24 GB VRAM
~$1750 USEDFull FP16 / MXFP4 with full 131k context window
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WILL MY BOX RUN GPT OSS SAFEGUARD 20B?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long gpt oss safeguard 20B takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB | SWEET SPOTApple Mac mini M4 Pro | FULL POWERNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~17 S★★★★★ | ~13 S★★★★★ | ~7 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~50 S★★★★★ | ~38 S★★★★★ | ~20 S★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~4.4 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.3 MIN★★★★★ | ~1.8 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~14 MIN★★★★★ | ~10 MIN★★★★★ | ~5.6 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~8.3 MIN★★★★★ | ~6.3 MIN★★★★★ | ~3.3 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
People are mostly frustrated with gpt oss safeguard 20B right now.
89 POSTS · 5 COMMENTS · GITHUB · BLOG · REDDIT · DEV.TO
PEOPLE LOVE
- People feel it is worth the money (1 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- People find it expensive (4 mentions)
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- BLOG · 2025-08-09 · 32 UPVOTESFrom GPT-2 to gpt-oss: Analyzing the Architectural Advances
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- BLOG · 2025-10-29 · 32 UPVOTESgpt-oss-safeguard technical report
gpt-oss-safeguard-120b and gpt-oss-safeguard-20b are two open-weight reasoning models post-trained from the gpt-oss models and trained to reason from a provided policy in order to label content under that policy. In this report, we describe…
- BLOG · 2025-08-05 · 32 UPVOTESIntroducing gpt-oss
We’re releasing gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b—two state-of-the-art open-weight language models that deliver strong real-world performance at low cost. Available under the flexible Apache 2.0 license, these models outperform similarly sized open models on…
- BLOG · 2025-08-05 · 32 UPVOTESgpt-oss-120b & gpt-oss-20b Model Card
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