CodeLlama 7B Python
CodeLlama 7B Python 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 100k context window
- Buyers comparing 4 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Family
- Code Llama
- Released
- 2023-08-24
- Context
- 100k
- Parameters
- 7B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2022-09
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open weights
- License
- Llama 2 CommunityCommercial use with conditions
- Training
- finetuned
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About
CodeLlama 7B Python is a specialized variant of Meta's CodeLlama family, designed for Python programming tasks. With 7 billion parameters, it excels in code completion, infilling, and instruction following. The model utilizes an optimized auto-regressive transformer architecture and has been trained on diverse programming tasks. It's suitable for both commercial and research applications, offering AI engineers a powerful tool for enhancing productivity in Python-centric environments. For more details, visit the model's page on Hugging Face .
CodeLlama 7B Python is a Python-specialized variant of Meta's CodeLlama 7B, released August 24, 2023. It is produced by further fine-tuning CodeLlama 7B on approximately 100 billion additional Python-specific tokens, sharpening its Python code completion, generation, and fill-in-the-middle (FIM) infilling accuracy. This LLMReference seed row lists 7 billion parameters and a 100K-token context, making it the long-context Python-specific 7B entry in the current model data.
Unlike CodeLlama 7B Instruct, the Python variant is not instruction-tuned for natural language prompts; it operates as a completion and FIM model that expects code context rather than conversational instructions. This makes it appropriate for IDE autocomplete backends, code synthesis pipelines, and batch code generation tasks where Python is the exclusive or primary language. Before relying on the full 100K context for repository-scale Python prompts, verify the limit on the provider row selected for deployment.
CodeLlama 7B Python is available as open weights on Hugging Face (meta-llama/CodeLlama-7b-Python-hf) under Meta's Code Llama Community License, and is hosted on Together AI, Fireworks AI, Azure AI Foundry, and Replicate. The 13B Python variant offers higher Python generation accuracy at greater compute cost. For new deployments, Qwen2.5-Coder or Qwen3-Coder family models offer significantly improved Python benchmarks.
CodeLlama 7B Python has a 100k-token context window.
CodeLlama 7B Python input tokens at $0.05/1M, output at $0.25/1M.
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 all 4Compare API pricing across 4 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fireworks AI | $0.200 | $0.200 | Provisioned |
| Together AI | $0.200 | $0.200 | Serverless |
| Replicate API | $0.050 | $0.250 | Serverless |
| Microsoft Foundry | $0.520 | $0.670 | Provisioned |
Available via routers & gateways(6)
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
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.
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