LLM Reference

Alpaca 7B

Released
2023-03-31
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 16d ago
ClassificationJSON / Tool use

Alpaca 7B is worth evaluating for classification and json / tool use when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating classification and json / tool use
  • Workloads that can use a 2k context window
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
Specifications
Family
Alpaca
Released
2023-03-31
Context
2k
Parameters
7B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Specialization
general
Training
finetuned
Created by

Pioneering AI research and computing infrastructure

Stanford, California, United States
Founded 1962
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$0.200
Input / 1M
$0.200

Cheapest of 1 route · Together AI

About

Alpaca 7B is a language model developed by Stanford University, derived from Meta's LLaMA 7B, designed for instruction-following tasks. It excels in producing coherent, context-sensitive responses and is comparable to OpenAI's text-davinci-003, despite its smaller size and lower training costs. With a transformer-based architecture of 7 billion parameters, it efficiently balances performance and resource needs, suitable for devices like laptops. Trained on 52,000 instruction-based demonstrations, it offers high-quality interaction while facing challenges like hallucination and stereotyping, indicating a need for careful real-world application.

Alpaca 7B is a model in the Alpaca family. The structured metadata tracks a 2k-token context window and structured outputs. This page tracks provider routes through Together AI, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.2 input and $0.2 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Alpaca 7B yet.

Top use-case fit

Classification

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

JSON / Tool use

Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Together AI$0.200$0.200
Serverless

Capabilities

Structured Outputs

Benchmark peer barsfor Classification

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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