LLM Reference

Alpaca 13B

Released
2023-03-31
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 16d ago

Alpaca 13B has model metadata, but missing tracked provider pricing keeps it from being a default production pick.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work
  • Workloads that can use a 2k context window

Do not use it for

  • Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Family
Alpaca
Released
2023-03-31
Context
2k
Parameters
13B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Specialization
general
Training
finetuned
Created by

Pioneering AI research and computing infrastructure

Stanford, California, United States
Founded 1962
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

The Alpaca 13B model is a large language model built on the transformer architecture, designed to handle a variety of natural language processing tasks such as text generation, instruction following, question answering, and dialogue generation. It is based on the LLaMA architecture and incorporates features like pre-normalization and rotary positional embeddings. Variants of Alpaca 13B are often fine-tuned using methods like LoRA for efficient adaptation to specific tasks, utilizing instruction-following datasets for training. While it excels in certain tasks, it can suffer from limitations such as hallucinations, biases, and resource-intensiveness. The model's effectiveness is closely tied to the nature of its fine-tuning datasets and techniques.

Alpaca 13B is a model in the Alpaca family. The structured metadata tracks a 2k-token context window. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Alpaca 13B yet.

Top use-case fit

No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.

Provider price ladder

No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

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