Kimi-K3-DSpark vs SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
HuggingFaceTB · B
Params
1.7 B
Context
8,192
30d
247 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Kimi-K3-DSpark | SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 247,483 |
| Downloads all time | 6.5 M | 2.9 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-07-27 | 2024-10-31 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 51 days (2 Aug – 21 Sep)
3.7 M168 K
Kimi-K3-DSpark
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct
A overtook B on 3 Aug
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct · fp16
4.5 GB / 24 GB
Kimi-K3-DSpark · fp16 @ 1024K ctx
48.6 GB / 24 GB