gemma-3-270m vs SmolLM2-135M

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

google · A
Params
270 M
Context
30d
2.1 M
gemma licence · conditional
HuggingFaceTB · B
Params
130 M
Context
8,192
30d
1.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gemma-3-270m SmolLM2-135M
Parameters 270 M 130 M
Architecture Gemma3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 8,192
Licence gemma apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 2,148,430 1,824,932
Downloads all time 15.7 M 17.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2025-08-05 2024-10-31

Download trend

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

2.1 M1.7 M
gemma-3-270m SmolLM2-135M

VRAM side by side

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

SmolLM2-135M · fp16 0.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gemma-3-270m · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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