Instruction Tuned

Alpaca

Stanford's instruction-tuned Llama model — trained on 52k GPT-generated instructions for $600.

Beluga

Top-ranked instruction model from StabilityAI — trained with System Prompt Tuning for superior instruction following.

Dolly

Databricks' open-source instruction-following model — trained on human-generated data, commercial use permitted.

Nous Hermes

Community fine-tuned instruction model from Nous Research — top performer on open-source model leaderboards.

OpenHermes

High-quality instruction-tuned Mistral model — tops leaderboards through superior training data quality.

Zephyr

HuggingFace's instruction-tuned open-source chat model — direct, helpful, and free to use commercially.