Compare gpt-oss-20b from OpenAI and Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
gpt-oss-20b
Kimi K3gpt-oss-20b is a 21-billion parameter open-weight model released by OpenAI under the Apache 2.0 license. Its core feature is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture that uses only 3.6B active parameters, enabling low-latency inference and deployment on consumer GPUs. The model also supports fine-tuning, function calling, tool use, and structured outputs.
Kimi K3 is Kimi’s flagship model for long-horizon coding and end-to-end knowledge work, with a 1M-token context window and industry-leading intelligence.
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gpt-oss-20b: $0.55/M output tokens; Kimi K3: $13.5/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Kimi K3: 1531; gpt-oss-20b: 1369 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
gpt-oss-20b: 0.1s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
gpt-oss-20b accepts 128,000 and Kimi K3 accepts 1,048,576 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on gpt-oss-20b and 1,048,576 tokens on Kimi K3.
gpt-oss-20b at 2619.0 tok/s and Kimi K3 at 73.1 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
gpt-oss-20b accepts text input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs; Kimi K3 accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, function calling and structured outputs.
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