Kimi-K3-DSpark vs SmolLM2-1.7B

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

RadixArk · A
Params
2.3 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
3.7 M
HuggingFaceTB · B
Params
1.7 B
Context
8,192
30d
243 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Kimi-K3-DSpark SmolLM2-1.7B
Parameters 2.3 B 1.7 B
Architecture DSparkDraftModel LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 1,048,576 8,192
Licence apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 3,658,082 243,405
Downloads all time 6.5 M 1.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-07-27 2024-10-30

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 51 days (2 Aug – 21 Sep)

3.7 M168 K
Kimi-K3-DSpark SmolLM2-1.7B

VRAM side by side

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

SmolLM2-1.7B · fp16 4.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Kimi-K3-DSpark · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 48.6 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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