gpt2 vs bloom-560m

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

openai-community · A
Params
140 M
Context
30d
13.7 M
mit · commercial OK
bigscience · B
Params
560 M
Context
30d
628 K
bigscience-bloom-rail-1.0 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gpt2 bloom-560m
Parameters 140 M 560 M
Architecture GPT2LMHeadModel BloomForCausalLM
Context length
Licence mit bigscience-bloom-rail-1.0
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 1 48
Downloads 30d 13,734,664 627,684
Downloads all time 901.9 M 25.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2022-05-19

Download trend

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

13.9 M621 K
gpt2 bloom-560m

VRAM side by side

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

gpt2 · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
bloom-560m · fp16 1.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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