Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct vs sarashina2.2-0.5b-instruct-v0.1

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

meta-llama · A
Params
1.2 B
Context
30d
6.9 M
llama3.2 licence · conditional
sbintuitions · B
Params
790 M
Context
8,192
30d
248 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct sarashina2.2-0.5b-instruct-v0.1
Parameters 1.2 B 790 M
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 8,192
Licence llama3.2 mit
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 8 1
Downloads 30d 6,922,063 247,967
Downloads all time 103.8 M 317 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-18 2025-02-26

Download trend

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

10.4 M220 K
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct sarashina2.2-0.5b-instruct-v0.1

VRAM side by side

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

sarashina2.2-0.5b-instruct-v0.1 · fp16 2.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct · fp16 3.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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