Guanaco vs Llama
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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Llama
Meta's downloadable LLM family, last updated with Llama 4 in April 202...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 4 / 10 | 8.3 / 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 weight downloads (Llama 2, 3.x and 4) under Meta's Llama community licences, after accepting the licence |
| Paid from | — | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 100k+ downloads | 10m+ downloads |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | University of Washington | Meta Platforms |
| 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... |
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... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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