gemma-3-1b-it vs SmolLM2-360M-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
HuggingFaceTB · B
Params
360 M
Context
8,192
30d
494 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification gemma-3-1b-it SmolLM2-360M-Instruct
Parameters 1.0 B 360 M
Architecture Gemma3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 8,192
Licence gemma apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 4,749,309 494,122
Downloads all time 46.4 M 7.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2025-03-10 2024-10-31

Download trend

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

4.7 M494 K
gemma-3-1b-it SmolLM2-360M-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

SmolLM2-360M-Instruct · fp16 1.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gemma-3-1b-it · fp16 2.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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