gemma-3-1b-it vs TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0

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

google · A
Params
1.0 B
Context
30d
3.1 M
gemma licence · conditional
TinyLlama · B
Params
1.1 B
Context
2,048
30d
1.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification gemma-3-1b-it TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0
Parameters 1.0 B 1.1 B
Architecture Gemma3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 2,048
Licence gemma apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 3,077,946 1,438,408
Downloads all time 51.6 M 49.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2025-03-10 2023-12-30

Download trend

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

5.2 M1.4 M
gemma-3-1b-it TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0

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
TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0 · fp16 3.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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