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Marin 7B

marin-7b

Researched 137d ago

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

Open Source

Marin 7B has model metadata, but missing tracked provider pricing keeps it from being a default production pick.

Decision context: Coding task fit, 0 tracked provider routes, and research from 2026-01-01.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work
  • Workloads that can use a 8K 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

Cheapest output

-

No tracked output price

Provider routes

0

No provider route in seed

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

No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.

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

Base model for Marin series. Fine-tuned from Llama 3 8B with emphasis on interpretability research and mechanistic interpretability investigation.

Marin 7B has a 8K-token context window.

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

Rankings

Specifications

FamilyMarin
Released2024-10-03
Parameters7B
Context8K

Created by

Marin is an open-source initiative by the Marin Community in close collaboration with Stanford Unive

Stanford, California, United States
Founded 2024
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