LLM Reference

Pythia 160M

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

Pythia 160M has model metadata, but missing tracked provider pricing keeps it from being a default production pick.

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
Pythia
Released
2023-05-31
Context
2k
Parameters
160M
Architecture
Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff
2020-03
Specialization
general
Training
finetuned
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Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

The Pythia 160M is a large language model by EleutherAI and part of the Pythia Scaling Suite, consisting of models from 70 million to 12 billion parameters. Built on the GPT-NeoX architecture, it features 12 layers, 768 hidden dimensions, and 12 attention heads, supporting a context length of 2048 tokens. It is trained with The Pile dataset, totaling 299,892,736,000 tokens, across 154 checkpoints. While it excels in text generation and interpretability research, its limitations include generating biased or harmful content, being English-only, and not being fine-tuned for deployment in specific applications. Despite these, it stands out as a research tool aiding the understanding of large language models 2345610.

Pythia 160M is a model in the Pythia family. The structured metadata tracks a 2k-token context window. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Pythia 160M 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.

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