distilgpt2 vs pythia-70m-deduped

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

distilbert · A
Params
90 M
Context
30d
2.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
EleutherAI · B
Params
100 M
Context
2,048
30d
769 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification distilgpt2 pythia-70m-deduped
Parameters 90 M 100 M
Architecture GPT2LMHeadModel GPTNeoXForCausalLM
Context length 2,048
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 2,640,611 768,707
Downloads all time 252.9 M 13.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2023-02-13

Download trend

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

2.7 M660 K
distilgpt2 pythia-70m-deduped

VRAM side by side

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

pythia-70m-deduped · fp16 0.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
distilgpt2 · fp16 0.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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