GPT-2 XL
Released
2019-11-05
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 105d ago
Open sourceCommercial use: permitted
GPT-2 XL is released 2019-11-05 in the GPT-2 family with open-source; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating general LLM work
- Workloads that can use a 1k 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
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Pricing
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.
About
GPT-2 XL is OpenAI's GPT-2 model. Its knowledge cutoff is 2017-12-01.
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.
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