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
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Unknown
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
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 an open-source 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 |
Available via routers & gateways(1)
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.
Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of Alpaca 7B?
Alpaca 7B has a context window of 2k tokens.
How much does Alpaca 7B cost?
Alpaca 7B is available at $0.2/1M input tokens through Together AI.
When was Alpaca 7B released?
Alpaca 7B was released on 2023-03-31.
Which providers offer Alpaca 7B?
Alpaca 7B is available from 1 provider: Together AI.
Pioneering AI research and computing infrastructure
Cheapest of 1 route · Together AI