bart-large-cnn vs pegasus-xsum

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

facebook · A
Params
410 M
Context
1,024
30d
1.6 M
mit · commercial OK
google · B
Params
Context
512
30d
187 K

Specification comparison

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Specification bart-large-cnn pegasus-xsum
Parameters 410 M
Architecture BartForConditionalGeneration PegasusForConditionalGeneration
Context length 1,024 512
Licence mit
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 1,561,070 187,154
Downloads all time 146.4 M 12.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
cnn_dailymail (reported) 78.5866 25.0234
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2022-03-02

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

1.6 M179 K
bart-large-cnn pegasus-xsum

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

bart-large-cnn · fp16 2.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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