distilgpt2 vs tiny_starcoder_py
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | distilgpt2 | tiny_starcoder_py |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 90 M | 160 M |
| Architecture | GPT2LMHeadModel | GPTBigCodeForCausalLM |
| Context length | — | — |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | bigcode-openrail-m |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | 1 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 2,640,611 | 249,481 |
| Downloads all time | 252.9 M | 1.3 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2022-03-02 | 2023-05-15 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
2.7 M246 K
distilgpt2
tiny_starcoder_py
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
distilgpt2 · fp16
0.9 GB / 24 GB
tiny_starcoder_py · fp16
1.2 GB / 24 GB