Yi 6B (base)

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API ID: 01-ai/yi-6b

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Input Price
Free
/1M tokens
Output Price
Free
/1M tokens

About Yi 6B (base)

Yi is 01.AI's language model series, delivering strong performance across reasoning, coding, and multilingual tasks. Founded by AI pioneer Kai-Fu Lee, 01.AI has developed Yi to compete with leading language models. Yi variants include chat, vision, and various size options from 6B to 34B parameters. The models feature particular strength in Chinese language applications while maintaining good English capability. For applications requiring capable AI with strong Chinese support, Yi offers versatile performance from a leading Chinese AI lab.

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#1 lowest price among 950 Chat models — Top 20% cheapest!

Model Specifications

Context Length
4k
Max Output
—
Release Date
2023-12-07
Capabilities
chat
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text

Best For

  • Conversations, content writing, general assistance

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  • Image understanding (needs vision capability)
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OpenAI-compatible SDK 
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="01-ai/yi-6b",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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