distilbart-cnn-12-6 vs text_summarization

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 30 September 2026.

sshleifer · A · Open weights
Params
—
Context
1,024
30d
317 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Falconsai · B · Open weights
Params
60 M
Context
—
30d
39 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification distilbart-cnn-12-6 text_summarization
Parameters — 60 M
Architecture BartForConditionalGeneration T5ForConditionalGeneration
Context length 1,024 —
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 316,696 39,137
Downloads all time 47.0 M 2.1 M
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Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2023-10-21

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

886 K39 K
distilbart-cnn-12-6 text_summarization

VRAM side by side

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

text_summarization · fp16 0.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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