gpt2 vs SmolLM2-135M-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 20 September 2026.

openai-community · A
Params
140 M
Context
30d
15.4 M
mit · commercial OK
HuggingFaceTB · B
Params
130 M
Context
8,192
30d
1.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification gpt2 SmolLM2-135M-Instruct
Parameters 140 M 130 M
Architecture GPT2LMHeadModel LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 8,192
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 15,362,811 1,525,471
Downloads all time 925.8 M 15.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2024-10-31

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 55 days (28 Jul – 20 Sep)

15.6 M1.3 M
gpt2 SmolLM2-135M-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

SmolLM2-135M-Instruct · fp16 0.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gpt2 · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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