StableLM vs Llama

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

StableLM Stability AI's dormant open LLM family — no new models since 2024 Visit Llama Meta's open-weight LLM family — Llama 4 landed, Behemoth didn't Visit
RECATOOLS Score 5 / 10 8.3 / 10
Capability 4.5 8
Value for money 6 9
Ease of use 4.5 5
ASEAN readiness 6 7
API quality 4 7
Pricing Open Source Open Source
Free tier Fully free Free model weights for download and local use
Paid from
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users 200k+ downloads 10m+ downloads
Founded 2023 2023
Maker Stability AI Meta Platforms
Verdict

StableLM gave Stability AI a foothold in open language models, and Stable LM 2 1.6B was genuinely competitive at its size in early 2024. But the line is finished: nothing has shipped since the 12B in April 2024, the mode...

Llama is still the backbone of the open-weight LLM ecosystem — Llama 2 and 3 built it, and Llama 4 (Scout and Maverick, shipped April 2025) kept it going, with a huge footprint on Hugging Face, Ollama, Together AI and Fi...

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