Guanaco vs OpenChat
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Guanaco
The 2023 research chatbots that demonstrated QLoRA 4-bit fine-tuning
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OpenChat
Open 7B and 8B models trained with C-RLFT, dormant since May 2024
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| RECATOOLS Score | 4 / 10 | 6.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Free download of code (MIT) and adapter weights (Apache 2.0), subject to the LLaMA licence for the base model | Free weights and code: OpenChat 3.5 under Apache 2.0, OpenChat 3.6 under the Llama 3 licence |
| Paid from | — | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 100k+ downloads | 200k+ downloads |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | University of Washington | Tsinghua University |
| Verdict | Guanaco is worth knowing for the method, not the model. QLoRA showed that 4-bit quantisation plus LoRA adapters could fine-tune a 65B model on one 48GB GPU, and that machinery now lives in bitsandbytes and Hugging Face P... |
OpenChat earned attention for C-RLFT, a clean way to learn from mixed-quality instruction data, and for 7B models the project measured as competitive with early-2023 ChatGPT. The weights are still free to download and ru... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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