Guanaco vs Vicuna
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Guanaco
The QLoRA demo chatbot that made single-GPU fine-tuning standard
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Vicuna
Fine-tuned open-source chatbot trained on ShareGPT conversations — 90%...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 4 / 10 | 3.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Fully free | Fully free |
| 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 existed to prove a point, and the point stuck: QLoRA's 4-bit quantised fine-tuning let a 65B LLaMA train on a single 48GB GPU, and the method is now baked into bitsandbytes, PEFT, Axolotl and essentially every op... |
Vicuna is a historically important open-source chat model released in 2023 by LMSYS, fine-tuned from Meta's LLaMA on user-shared ChatGPT conversations and notable for showing how cheaply a strong open chatbot could be ap... |
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