distilgpt2 vs hyenadna-medium-450k-seqlen-hf

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

distilbert · A
Params
90 M
Context
30d
2.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
LongSafari · B
Params
28 M
Context
30d
221 K
bsd-3-clause · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification distilgpt2 hyenadna-medium-450k-seqlen-hf
Parameters 90 M 28 M
Architecture GPT2LMHeadModel HyenaDNAForCausalLM
Context length
Licence apache-2.0 bsd-3-clause
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 2,070,768 220,797
Downloads all time 256.2 M 269 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2023-11-03

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

2.7 M205 K
distilgpt2 hyenadna-medium-450k-seqlen-hf

VRAM side by side

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

hyenadna-medium-450k-seqlen-hf · fp16 0.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
distilgpt2 · fp16 0.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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