Guanaco vs Vicuna
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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Vicuna
LMSYS's 2023 LLaMA fine-tune that led to FastChat and Chatbot Arena
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| RECATOOLS Score | 4 / 10 | 4 / 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 weight downloads on Hugging Face; v1.5 under the Llama 2 Community License, earlier versions non-commercial |
| Paid from | — | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 100k+ downloads | 1m+ downloads |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | University of Washington | LMSYS Org |
| 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... |
Vicuna showed in March 2023 that a LLaMA fine-tune on shared ChatGPT conversations could make a capable chatbot for about $300 of training, and the project gave the field FastChat and Chatbot Arena, now run by the compan... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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