Side-by-side comparison of GPT-OSS 20B (OpenAI · USA) and Phi-4 (Microsoft · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. GPT-OSS 20B is rated conditional; Phi-4 is EU-ready. They part ways on licence: GPT-OSS 20B is "Apache 2.0", Phi-4 is "MIT".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | 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. | EU-ready MIT-licensed 14B from Microsoft Research. Heavy use of synthetic training data is disclosed; English-primary (thin multilingual coverage). Strongest small-model option for permissive-licence EU deployments. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-17 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Apache 2.0 | MIT |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Yes |
| Training data | Domain-level summary | Partial |
| Origin | United States | USA |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 25/100 | 10/100 |
| Speed | 294 tok/s | 29 tok/s |
| Blended price | $0.10/M | $0.22/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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