Question 1

What is GPT OSS Safeguard 20B?

Accepted Answer

GPT OSS Safeguard 20B is a model from OpenAI, released on Oct 29, 2025. gpt-oss-safeguard-20b is a safety reasoning model from OpenAI built upon gpt-oss-20b. $0.075 per million input tokens, $0.30 per million output tokens. 131,072 token context window, maximum output of 65,536 tokens.

Question 2

How much does GPT OSS Safeguard 20B cost?

Accepted Answer

On the Respan gateway, input starts at $0.07 per 1M tokens on every provider, and output starts at $0.30 per 1M tokens on every provider, after gateway discounts.

Question 3

Which providers serve GPT OSS Safeguard 20B on Respan?

Accepted Answer

2 providers serve GPT OSS Safeguard 20B: Groq and OpenRouter. Groq requires your own provider API key (BYOK).

Question 4

What is GPT OSS Safeguard 20B's context window?

Accepted Answer

GPT OSS Safeguard 20B accepts up to 131K tokens of context on its largest provider route.

Question 5

How do I use GPT OSS Safeguard 20B with the Respan gateway?

Accepted Answer

Point any OpenAI-compatible SDK at https://api.respan.ai/api/ with your Respan API key and set the model to "gpt-oss-safeguard-20b". To set it up with a coding agent, copy the agent setup prompt at the top of this page.

Question 6

How fast is GPT OSS Safeguard 20B?

Accepted Answer

Over the last 30 days of requests through the Respan gateway, the fastest provider was OpenRouter at 140 tokens per second, and the lowest response latency was 0.4 seconds on OpenRouter. Speed varies with request size and provider.

Provider	Context	Input	Output	Capabilities
GroqBYOK only`groq/openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b`	131K	$0.07/M	$0.30/M
OpenRouter`openrouter/openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b`	131K	$0.07/M	$0.30/M

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