LLM Reference

Baichuan 2 13B Chat

Released
2023-06-15
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 60d ago
Open sourceCommercial use: permitted

Baichuan 2 13B Chat is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work
  • Workloads that can use a 4k context window
  • Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route

Do not use it for

  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Released
2023-06-15
Context
4k
Parameters
13B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Specialization
general
Openness
Open source
License
Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
Weights
Unknown
Code
Unknown
Training
Fine-tuned
Created by

Open-source AI with massive context

Beijing, China
Founded 2023
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
-
Input / 1M
-

Cheapest of 1 route · NVIDIA NIM

About

Baichuan 2 13B Chat is a large language model from Baichuan Intelligence, designed to excel in text generation, dialogue systems, question answering, and code generation. Built on Transformer architecture, it uses PyTorch 2.0 enhancements for efficient performance. Trained on a vast dataset of 2.6 trillion tokens, it demonstrates strong cross-lingual functionalities, notably in Chinese and English. Its notable features include open-source access, a commercially usable license, and quantized versions for resource efficiency. Despite its power and versatility, it shares common LLM limitations, such as potential bias and specific knowledge gaps.

Baichuan 2 13B Chat is an open-source model in the Baichuan 2 family. The structured metadata tracks a 4k-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through NVIDIA NIM. Headline tracked benchmarks include GAOKAO 43.9.

Top use-case fit

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

Provider price ladder

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

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
NVIDIA NIM--
ProvisionedPartial

Available via routers & gateways(1)

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

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

Benchmark scores(1)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionEvaluationSource
GAOKAO43.9zero-shot, objective-accuracyObserved 2023-05-20Source

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

Frequently asked questions

What is the context window of Baichuan 2 13B Chat?

Baichuan 2 13B Chat has a context window of 4k tokens.

When was Baichuan 2 13B Chat released?

Baichuan 2 13B Chat was released on 2023-06-15.

Which providers offer Baichuan 2 13B Chat?

Baichuan 2 13B Chat is available from 1 provider: NVIDIA NIM.

What benchmarks has Baichuan 2 13B Chat been tested on?

Baichuan 2 13B Chat has been evaluated on 1 benchmark, including GAOKAO.