LLM Reference

Orca 13B

Released
2023-06-05
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 60d ago
Open weightsCommercial use: non-commercial

Orca 13B is released 2023-06-05 in the Orca family with open-weight; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work
  • Workloads that can use a 2k 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
Specifications
Family
Orca
Released
2023-06-05
Context
2k
Parameters
13B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Specialization
general
Openness
Open weights
License
Microsoft Research(needs verification)Commercial use: non-commercial
Weights
Unknown
Code
Unknown
Training
Fine-tuned
Created by

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Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

Orca 13B, a powerful AI language model developed by Microsoft, leverages a fine-tuned LLaMA-2 base model architecture to mimic the reasoning processes of larger models like GPT-4. Although significantly smaller than GPT-4, it requires fewer computational resources and aims for comparable performance. The model enhances reasoning abilities using a synthetic training dataset moderated by Microsoft Azure content filters. Its capabilities include reasoning, reading comprehension, math problem-solving, and text summarization, though it's not optimized for chat tasks. Orca 13B employs a progressive learning approach, learning from GPT-4's explanation traces to improve accuracy and contextual understanding. However, it may still exhibit biases, hallucinate, and misinterpret scenarios. Different quantized versions are available, offering various trade-offs in speed, accuracy, and memory usage.

Orca 13B is an open-weight model in the Orca family. The structured metadata tracks a 2k-token context window. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Orca 13B yet.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What is the context window of Orca 13B?

Orca 13B has a context window of 2k tokens.

When was Orca 13B released?

Orca 13B was released on 2023-06-05.