HuggingFaceTB / text-generation updated 1 year ago

SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct

Name: SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct
Author: HuggingFaceTB

1. Model Summary 2. Evaluation 3. Examples 4. Limitations 5. Training 6. License 7. Citation

Params

1.7 B

Context

8,192

Downloads 30d

212 K

Likes

746

Commercial use: allowed apache-2.0 Not gated SAFETENSORS 1 languages View on Hugging Face ↗

Download history

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Can you run it?

Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

File	Quant	Size	Est. VRAM	Verdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors	bf16	3.4 GB	4.5 GB	✅ Runs comfortably

Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Run it

copy-paste, exact tags checked against the Hub

~ · curl · api/v1

$ curl -s https://aimodelscomparison.com/api/v1/models/smollm2-1-7b-instruct
{
  "hf_id": "HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct",
  "params_b": 1.71,
  "context_length": 8192,
  "license": { "id": "apache-2.0", "commercial": "yes" },
  "downloads_30d": 212482,
  "vram_estimates": [
    { "quant": "bf16", "gb": 4.5 }
  ],
  "updated_at": "2026-07-28T18:08:21Z"
}

est. VRAM —on RTX 4090 · 24 GBJSON API →

Specifications

Architecture: LlamaForCausalLM
Parameters: 1.7 B
Tensor type: BF16
Context length: 8,192
Vocabulary: 49,152
Layers / heads: 24 / 32
Licence: apache-2.0
First seen on the Hub: 2024-10-31
Training datasets: undisclosed
Added to our catalog: 2026-07-28

Compare with

Qwen3-0.6B 29.7 M Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct 14.0 M Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct 10.4 M Qwen3-1.7B 7.8 M Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct 6.0 M Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct 3.2 M

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