Alpaca 7B
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
- Family
- Alpaca
- Released
- 2023-03-31
- Context
- 2k
- Parameters
- 7B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Training
- finetuned
Pioneering AI research and computing infrastructure
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.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Together AI | $0.200 | $0.200 | Serverless |
Capabilities
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.