What are the hardware requirements for GPT Oss 20B Heretic?

GPT Oss 20B Heretic requires approximately 41.6 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed GPT Oss 20B Heretic and how large is it?

GPT Oss 20B Heretic is developed by p-e-w, a model with 20b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate GPT Oss 20B Heretic?

GPT Oss 20B Heretic is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

GPT Oss 20B Heretic by p-e-w — VRAM 41.6GB, 128K context

Name: GPT Oss 20B Heretic
Author: p-e-w

GPT Oss 20B Heretic is an open-source language model by p-e-w. Features: 20b LLM, VRAM: 41.6GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.25.

Arxiv:2508.10925 Abliterated Conversational Decensored Endpoints compatible Gpt oss Heretic Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Uncensored Vllm

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/p-e-w/gpt-oss-20b-heretic

GPT Oss 20B Heretic Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	GPT Oss 20B Heretic
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/p-e-w/gpt-oss-20b-heretic
Model Size	20b
Required VRAM	41.6 GB
Updated	2026-07-27
Maintainer	p-e-w
Model Type	gpt_oss
Model Files	4.5 GB: 1-of-9 4.9 GB: 2-of-9 4.9 GB: 3-of-9 4.9 GB: 4-of-9 4.9 GB: 5-of-9 4.9 GB: 6-of-9 4.9 GB: 7-of-9 4.9 GB: 8-of-9 2.8 GB: 9-of-9
Model Architecture	GptOssForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	201088

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