LLM Reference

BERT Base

Released
2018-10-11
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 60d ago
Commercial use: unknown

BERT Base is an early limited-data entry; LLMReference does not yet track enough provider, pricing, benchmark, or task-fit evidence to recommend it.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work
  • Workloads that can use a 512 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
BERT
Released
2018-10-11
Context
512
Parameters
110M
Architecture
Decoder Only
Specialization
general
License
Unknown / UnverifiedCommercial use: unknown
Weights
Unknown
Code
Unknown
Training
Fine-tuned
Created by

Pioneering artificial intelligence research.

London, United Kingdom
Founded 2014
Website
Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

BERT Base, developed by Google AI Language, is a prominent large language AI model that utilizes a bidirectional transformer architecture to enhance natural language processing tasks. It processes the entire input sequence simultaneously, offering a comprehensive understanding of context, which significantly improves the model's accuracy compared to previous unidirectional models. With approximately 110 million parameters and a hidden size of 768 across 12 layers, BERT Base is equipped to handle various NLP tasks such as named entity recognition, sentiment analysis, and question answering. While it achieves impressive results, the model demands considerable computational resources for training and fine-tuning, and it can reflect biases from its training data, indicating the importance of careful data management.

BERT Base is a model in the BERT family. The structured metadata tracks a 512-token context window. No headline benchmark score is tracked for BERT Base 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.

Frequently asked questions

What is the context window of BERT Base?

BERT Base has a context window of 512 tokens.

When was BERT Base released?

BERT Base was released on 2018-10-11.