gpt2 vs pythia-70m-deduped

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

openai-community · A · Open weights
Params
140 M
Context
—
30d
31.8 M
mit · commercial OK
EleutherAI · B · Open weights
Params
100 M
Context
2,048
30d
729 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gpt2 pythia-70m-deduped
Parameters 140 M 100 M
Architecture GPT2LMHeadModel GPTNeoXForCausalLM
Context length — 2,048
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 31,775,505 728,542
Downloads all time 969.1 M 17.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2023-02-13

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

31.8 M729 K
gpt2 pythia-70m-deduped

VRAM side by side

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

pythia-70m-deduped · fp16 0.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gpt2 · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

Adjacent comparisons