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
- Family
- GPT-2
- Released
- 2019-02-14
- Context
- 1k
- Parameters
- 355M
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2017-12
- Specialization
- general
- Training
- finetuned
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 a 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 |
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
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Migration checks
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