LLM Reference

Pythia 12B

Released
2023-05-31
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 106d ago
Open sourceCommercial use: permitted

Pythia 12B is worth evaluating for general LLM work when its provider route and context window match the workload.

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
Specifications
Family
Pythia
Released
2023-05-31
Context
2k
Parameters
12B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff
2020-03
Specialization
general
Openness
Open source
License
Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
Weights
Unknown
Code
Unknown
Training
Fine-tuned
Created by
EleutherAIEleutherAI

Championing open-source AI for everyone

New York, New York, United States
Founded 2020
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$0.200
Input / 1M
$0.200

Cheapest of 1 route · Fireworks AI

Providers(1)
Fireworks AI
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About

Pythia 12B is EleutherAI's Pythia model. Its knowledge cutoff is 2020-03.

Top use-case fit

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

Provider price ladder

Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Fireworks AI$0.200$0.200
Provisioned

Available via routers & gateways(1)

OpenRouter

Hybrid

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PassthroughFireworks AI

Capabilities

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Migration checks

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