Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct vs OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct

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

meta-llama · A

Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct

Params

1.2 B

Context

—

30d

6.9 M

llama3.2 licence · conditional

apple · B

OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct

Params

1.1 B

Context

—

30d

1.4 M

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct	OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct
Parameters	1.2 B	1.1 B
Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM	OpenELMForCausalLM
Context length	—	—
Licence	llama3.2	apple-amlr
Commercial use	Conditional	Unknown
Languages	8	—
Downloads 30d	6,922,063	1,368,325
Downloads all time	103.8 M	27.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	Yes — accept licence	No
First seen on the Hub	2024-09-18	2024-04-12

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

10.4 M1.3 M

Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct · fp16 3.0 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct · fp16 3.4 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

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