LLM Reference

Pythia 12B

Released
2023-05-31
Last refreshed
2026-05-19
Status
Researched 16d ago

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
Training
finetuned
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Pricing
Output / 1M
$0.200
Input / 1M
$0.200

Cheapest of 1 route · Fireworks AI

About

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

Pythia 12B is a model in the Pythia family. The structured metadata tracks a 2k-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through Fireworks AI, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.2 input and $0.2 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Pythia 12B yet.

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

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.

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