gemma-3-1b-it vs OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct

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

google · A
Params
1.0 B
Context
30d
4.7 M
gemma licence · conditional
apple · B
Params
1.1 B
Context
30d
1.5 M

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gemma-3-1b-it OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct
Parameters 1.0 B 1.1 B
Architecture Gemma3ForCausalLM OpenELMForCausalLM
Context length
Licence gemma apple-amlr
Commercial use Conditional Unknown
Languages
Downloads 30d 4,749,309 1,511,484
Downloads all time 46.4 M 25.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2025-03-10 2024-04-12

Download trend

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

4.7 M1.5 M
gemma-3-1b-it OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

gemma-3-1b-it · fp16 2.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct · fp16 3.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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