LLM Reference

Zephyr 7B Beta

Released
2023-10-26
Last refreshed
2026-04-19
Status
Researched 243d ago
Open sourceCommercial use: permittedCodingClassification

Zephyr 7B Beta 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
  • Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes

Do not use it for

  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
Specifications
Family
Zephyr
Released
2023-10-26
Parameters
7B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Specialization
general
Openness
Open source
License
MITOSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
Weights
Unknown
Code
Unknown
Training
Fine-tuned
Created by

Community-driven open-source AI model hub

New York City, New York, United States
Founded 2016
Website
Pricing
Output / 1M
$0.200
Input / 1M
$0.200

Cheapest of 2 routes · Fireworks AI

About

Zephyr 7B Beta is a 7-billion parameter large language model, fine-tuned from the Mistral-7B-v0.1 model. It is tailored to serve as an effective virtual assistant, performing well in generating human-like responses. The model's training involved Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) on a combination of publicly available and synthetic datasets, achieving strong performance on benchmarks like MT-Bench and AlpacaEval, especially for conversational tasks. However, its complexity falls short when compared to proprietary models, especially in tasks involving coding and mathematics. A notable limitation is its insufficient alignment to human safety preferences and the absence of in-the-loop filtering to prevent problematic outputs.

Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks

Coding

Q/$ A

1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.

Classification

Q/$ B

2 relevant benchmarks in the decision map.

Provider price ladder

Compare all 2

Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.

ProviderInput / 1MOutput / 1MRoute
Fireworks AI$0.200$0.200
Provisioned
Replicate API$0.050$0.250
Serverless

Available via routers & gateways(1)

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

Benchmark scores(4)

Scores are benchmark-specific and are direction-aware: the same numeric gap can mean very different outcomes across suites. Use the leaderboard context and this model's provider route to decide whether the winning margin is meaningful for your workload.
BenchmarkScoreVersionEvaluationSource
Google-Proof Q&A47.3diamondObserved 2026-03-06research
HellaSwag88.110-shotObserved 2026-03-06research
HumanEval67.8pass@1Observed 2026-03-06research
Massive Multitask Language Understanding71.45-shotObserved 2026-03-06research

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.