gemma-3-1b-it vs pythia-410m

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

google · A
Params
1.0 B
Context
30d
3.1 M
gemma licence · conditional
EleutherAI · B
Params
510 M
Context
2,048
30d
241 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gemma-3-1b-it pythia-410m
Parameters 1.0 B 510 M
Architecture Gemma3ForCausalLM GPTNeoXForCausalLM
Context length 2,048
Licence gemma apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 3,077,946 240,569
Downloads all time 51.6 M 3.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2025-03-10 2023-02-13

Download trend

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

5.2 M191 K
gemma-3-1b-it pythia-410m

VRAM side by side

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

pythia-410m · fp16 1.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gemma-3-1b-it · fp16 2.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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