GPT-2 Large

Name: GPT-2 Large
Author: OpenAI

Released

2019-08-20

Last refreshed

2026-05-19

Status

Researched 60d ago

Open sourceCommercial use: permitted

GPT-2 Large 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 1k 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

Family: GPT-2
Released: 2019-08-20
Context: 1k
Parameters: 774M
Architecture: Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff: 2017-12
Specialization: general
Openness: Open source
License: MITOSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
Weights: Unknown
Code: Unknown
Training: Fine-tuned

Created by

OpenAI

Cutting-edge research and development.

San Francisco, California, United States

Founded 2015

Website

Pricing

Output / 1M

Input / 1M

Cheapest of 1 route · Azure OpenAI

Providers(1)

Azure OpenAI

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About

GPT-2 Large is OpenAI's GPT-2 model. Its knowledge cutoff is 2017-12-01.

GPT-2 Large is an open-source model in the GPT-2 family. The structured metadata tracks a 1k-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through Azure OpenAI. No headline benchmark score is tracked for GPT-2 Large yet.

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.

Provider	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Route
Azure OpenAI	-	-	ProvisionedPartial

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Kong AI Gateway

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