Llama vs MPT (MosaicML Pretrained Transformer)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Llama
Meta's downloadable LLM family, last updated with Llama 4 in April 202...
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MPT (MosaicML Pretrained Transformer)
MosaicML's 2023 commercially usable open LLMs, now a legacy family
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.3 / 10 | 5.5 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Free weight downloads (Llama 2, 3.x and 4) under Meta's Llama community licences, after accepting the licence | Released free: base and Instruct Apache 2.0, Chat CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; the official Hugging Face repositories now return an authorisation error |
| Paid from | — | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 10m+ downloads | 200k+ downloads |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | Meta Platforms | Databricks |
| Verdict | Llama 2 and 3 made Meta's family the default starting point for self-hosted and fine-tuned models, and the weights from Llama 2 through Llama 4 remain free to download from Hugging Face and Kaggle. Llama 4 Scout and Mave... |
MPT was an important 2023 release: an Apache 2.0 base model trained from scratch for about $200,000, with a 65k-context StoryWriter variant when most open models stopped at 2k to 4k tokens. Mind the licence split, though... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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