GPT-2 Medium
GPT-2 Medium 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
Cheapest of 1 route · Azure OpenAI
About
GPT-2 Medium is OpenAI's GPT-2 model. Its knowledge cutoff is 2017-12-01.
GPT-2 Medium 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 Medium 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 |
Available via routers & gateways(5)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the context window of GPT-2 Medium?
GPT-2 Medium has a context window of 1k tokens.
When was GPT-2 Medium released?
GPT-2 Medium was released on 2019-02-14.
Which providers offer GPT-2 Medium?
GPT-2 Medium is available from 1 provider: Azure OpenAI.
Cheapest of 1 route · Azure OpenAI