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LLaMA 7B

llama-7b

Researched 137d ago

Last refreshed 2026-04-18. Next refresh: weekly.

Open Source

LLaMA 7B is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.

Decision context: Coding task fit, 1 tracked provider route, and research from 2026-01-01.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work
  • Workloads that can use a 2K 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 output

-

Replicate API per 1M tokens

Provider routes

1

Tracked API hosts

Quality / dollar

Unknown

No task benchmark coverage yet

Freshness

2026-01-01

Researched 137d ago

stale

Top use-case fit

No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.

Provider price ladder

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Replicate API--
ServerlessPartial

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.

About

Meta's original LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI) 7B parameter model. Released February 2023, it demonstrated that smaller models trained on more data could match larger models. Foundation for the LLaMA family of open models.

LLaMA 7B has a 2K-token context window.

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

Benchmark Scores(1)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionSource
GAOKAO21.1zero-shot, objective-accuracyhttps://github.com/OpenLMLab/GAOKAO-Bench

Rankings

Specifications

FamilyLLaMA
Released2023-02-24
Parameters7B
Context2K
ArchitectureDecoder Only
Specializationgeneral
Trainingpretrained

Created by

Large-scale open-source AI for social technologies.

Menlo Park, California, United States
Founded 2013
Website

Providers(1)