gemma-3-1b-it vs bloomz-560m

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

google · A
Params
1.0 B
Context
30d
3.1 M
gemma licence · conditional
bigscience · B
Params
560 M
Context
30d
724 K
bigscience-bloom-rail-1.0 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gemma-3-1b-it bloomz-560m
Parameters 1.0 B 560 M
Architecture Gemma3ForCausalLM BloomForCausalLM
Context length
Licence gemma bigscience-bloom-rail-1.0
Commercial use Conditional Conditional
Languages 46
Downloads 30d 3,077,946 724,329
Downloads all time 51.6 M 61.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2025-03-10 2022-10-08

Download trend

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

5.2 M644 K
gemma-3-1b-it bloomz-560m

VRAM side by side

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

bloomz-560m · fp16 1.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gemma-3-1b-it · fp16 2.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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