gemma-3-1b-it vs sarashina2.2-0.5b-instruct-v0.1

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

google · A
Params
1.0 B
Context
30d
3.1 M
gemma licence · conditional
sbintuitions · B
Params
790 M
Context
8,192
30d
248 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification gemma-3-1b-it sarashina2.2-0.5b-instruct-v0.1
Parameters 1.0 B 790 M
Architecture Gemma3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 8,192
Licence gemma mit
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 3,077,946 247,967
Downloads all time 51.6 M 317 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2025-03-10 2025-02-26

Download trend

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

5.2 M220 K
gemma-3-1b-it sarashina2.2-0.5b-instruct-v0.1

VRAM side by side

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

sarashina2.2-0.5b-instruct-v0.1 · fp16 2.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gemma-3-1b-it · fp16 2.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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