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Vicuna-13B

Open-source conversational agent for research and development.

Strong conversational abilitiesOpen-source and accessibleGood instruction following for its sizeActive research community
Today's score
88.0
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Where it ranks today

Best for / Not great for

Best for
  • Chatbot development
  • Instruction-following tasks
  • Research into agent behavior
  • Prototyping conversational agents
Not great for
  • Complex reasoning or code execution
  • Long context handling
  • Enterprise-grade deployment without significant adaptation
  • Multimodal tasks

Why it ranks here

Vicuna-13B continues to be a popular choice in the open-source community for its impressive conversational performance relative to its size. It's a go-to model for researchers and developers experimenting with agentic chatbots and instruction-following tasks, especially when computational resources are limited.

30-day trend

Score breakdown

Search trends87
Benchmarks88
Developer buzz89
News mentions87

Pricing

API: $0.00 in · $0.00 out per 1M tokens · Consumer: $0.00/mo

Pricing plans

Popular
Open Source
Free to download and use.
Free
  • Model weights available
  • Requires self-hosting
  • Research-focused
  • Community support
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