Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-OSS-20B is an open-weight large language model with 20 billion parameters from OpenAI's open-source model initiative. It targets deployments requiring a smaller, efficient model that can run on consumer or mid-tier hardware while maintaining strong reasoning and coding capabilities relative to its size.
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 3 is a 24-billion-parameter open-weight language model from Mistral AI, released in January 2025 as an update to the Mistral Small line with targeted improvements to instruction-following, multilingual reasoning, and structured output quality. Released under Apache 2.0, it was designed for deployment on a single high-VRAM GPU, continuing Mistral's focus on practical efficiency over maximum scale. The model became a widely-used option for teams building internal tooling, customer-facing applications, and local inference pipelines that needed strong general capability without the operational overhead of larger models.
6 months newer

Mistral Small 3 24B
Mistral AI
2025-01-30

GPT-OSS-20B
OpenAI
2025-08-05
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
GPT-OSS-20B
Hugging Face
Mistral Small 3 24B
GPT-OSS-20B
Mistral Small 3 24B
GPT-OSS-20B
Mistral Small 3 24B