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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

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gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

Added 10 July 2026

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Overview

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...

How to use / API access

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Notes

gpt-oss-safeguard-20b is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

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How much gpt-oss-safeguard-20b is used

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Tokens, last 7 days
3.4B ▲22.9%
Requests, last 7 days
2.3M
Tool calls, last 7 days
4.1K
Price per million tokens
$0.075 in · $0.3 out
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