Side-by-side comparison of GLM-5.1 (Zhipu AI (Z.ai) · China) and GPT-OSS 20B (OpenAI · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. GLM-5.1 is rated conditional; GPT-OSS 20B is conditional. They part ways on licence: GLM-5.1 is "MIT", GPT-OSS 20B is "Apache 2.0".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional Per current documentation, GLM-5.1 is released under a verbatim MIT License with no use restrictions, enabling self-hosted commercial deployment. However, training-data opacity, Beijing-based publisher, and Zhipu AI's presence on the US BIS Entity List create EU AI Act transparency and supply-chain screening risks for regulated deployers. | Conditional Based on published licence terms, GPT-OSS 20B is released under Apache 2.0 with no field-of-use carve-outs in the licence itself; OpenAI publishes a separate non-binding 'gpt-oss usage policy' as guidance. Training-data disclosure is domain-level only, and US origin carries Schrems-II / CLOUD-Act exposure that enterprise deployers should document for EU workloads. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-17 | 2026-04-17 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | MIT | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Domain-level summary |
| Origin | China (Beijing) | United States |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 44/100 | 25/100 |
| Speed | 48 tok/s | 294 tok/s |
| Blended price | $2.15/M | $0.10/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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