Side-by-side comparison of GPT-OSS 20B (OpenAI · USA) and QwQ-32B (Alibaba · China) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. GPT-OSS 20B is rated conditional; QwQ-32B is conditional. They part ways on commercial use: GPT-OSS 20B is "Unrestricted", QwQ-32B is "Yes".
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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. | Conditional 32B dense reasoning model under Apache 2.0. Sweet spot for self-hostable reasoning: 4090-class GPU at 4-bit, single H100 at bf16. Chinese-origin caveats unchanged. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-17 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Yes |
| Training data | Domain-level summary | Undisclosed |
| Origin | United States | China |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 25/100 | 20/100 |
| Speed | 294 tok/s | 33 tok/s |
| Blended price | $0.10/M | $0.74/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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