distilgpt2 vs pythia-160m
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | distilgpt2 | pythia-160m |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 90 M | 210 M |
| Architecture | GPT2LMHeadModel | GPTNeoXForCausalLM |
| Context length | — | 2,048 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 2,640,611 | 2,454,580 |
| Downloads all time | 252.9 M | 20.8 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2022-03-02 | 2023-02-08 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
2.7 M2.3 M
distilgpt2
pythia-160m
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
distilgpt2 · fp16
0.9 GB / 24 GB
pythia-160m · fp16
0.9 GB / 24 GB