Orca 2 7B
Orca 2 7B is worth evaluating for coding and classification when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating coding and classification
- Workloads that can use a 4k 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
- Orca 2
- Released
- 2023-11-21
- Context
- 4k
- Parameters
- 7B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open weights
- License
- Microsoft Research(needs verification)Commercial use: non-commercial
- Weights
- Unknown
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Advancing the state-of-the-art in AI and computing.
Cheapest of 1 route · Microsoft Foundry
About
Orca 2 7B is a large language model developed by Microsoft, focusing on reasoning tasks and providing precise single-turn responses. It is a fine-tuned version of the LLaMA-2 architecture, trained on a synthetic dataset with enhanced reasoning capabilities, moderated by Microsoft Azure content filters. While adept at handling reasoning over user-provided data, reading comprehension, math problem-solving, and text summarization, it is not optimized for chat applications without further fine-tuning. Orca 2 shows strong performance in zero-shot settings but shares some LLMs' common limitations, including biases and the potential for generating misleading content.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
Q/$ C1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.
Classification
Q/$ C1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Foundry | $0.520 | $0.670 | Provisioned |
Available via routers & gateways(5)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.
Helicone
GatewayObservability-first AI gateway with routing, caching, rate limiting, and request tracing; Apache 2.0 open-source core with a managed hosted tier for logging and analytics.
Kong AI Gateway
GatewayMulti-LLM AI gateway built on Kong Gateway 3.x, adding semantic routing, load balancing, guardrails, and MCP traffic analytics as plugins over Kong's existing API management platform.
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
Benchmark scores(2)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HumanEval | 28.4 | pass@1Observed 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
| Massive Multitask Language Understanding | 66.5 | 5-shotObserved 2026-03-06 | — | Source |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Advancing the state-of-the-art in AI and computing.
Cheapest of 1 route · Microsoft Foundry