Llama-3.2-1B vs bloomz-560m

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 August 2026.

meta-llama · A · Open weights
Params
1.2 B
Context
—
30d
477 K
llama3.2 licence · conditional
bigscience · B · Open weights
Params
560 M
Context
—
30d
599 K
bigscience-bloom-rail-1.0 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Llama-3.2-1B 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 477,238 599,299
Downloads all time 60.2 M 63.2 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 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

1.8 M432 K
Llama-3.2-1B 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 · fp16 3.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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