Vicuna 7B
Vicuna 7B is worth evaluating for classification and json / tool use when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating classification and json / tool use
- Workloads that can use a 2k context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Family
- Vicuna
- Released
- 2023-10-23
- Context
- 2k
- Parameters
- 7B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2022
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open weights
- License
- Llama 2 CommunityCommercial use: conditional
- Weights
- Unknown
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Cheapest of 1 route · GCP Vertex AI
About
Vicuna-7B is an open-source language model crafted by LMSYS, fine-tuning the LLaMA model using around 125,000 user conversations from ShareGPT. It's designed for natural and fluent dialogues, effectively addressing a wide array of queries and generating text on diverse subjects. However, while it performs well, it may sometimes produce incorrect or biased responses due to its training limitations. Aimed primarily at research, it comes in various versions and quantizations to cater to different computational needs. Although helpful and polite, its performance is slightly lower compared to larger models like Vicuna-13B or Vicuna-33B 125.
Top use-case fit
Classification
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
JSON / Tool use
Included by capability and metadata signals 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GCP Vertex AI | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
Available via routers & gateways(13)
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.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
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.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.
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
Benchmark peer barsfor Classification
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Benchmark scores(1)
Migration checks
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Cheapest of 1 route · GCP Vertex AI