Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct vs bloomz-560m

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

meta-llama · A
Params
1.2 B
Context
30d
10.4 M
llama3.2 licence · conditional
bigscience · B
Params
560 M
Context
30d
1.2 M
bigscience-bloom-rail-1.0 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct bloomz-560m
Parameters 1.2 B 560 M
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM BloomForCausalLM
Context length
Licence llama3.2 bigscience-bloom-rail-1.0
Commercial use Conditional Conditional
Languages 8 46
Downloads 30d 10,412,058 1,172,809
Downloads all time 92.8 M 60.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-18 2022-10-08

Download trend

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

10.4 M799 K
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct bloomz-560m

VRAM side by side

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

bloomz-560m · fp16 1.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct · fp16 3.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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