OTel-LLM-E4B-IT vs SmolLM3-3B-Base

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 22 September 2026.

farbodtavakkoli · A · Open weights
Params
4.0 B
Context
—
30d
170 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
HuggingFaceTB · B · Open weights
Params
3.1 B
Context
65,536
30d
213 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification OTel-LLM-E4B-IT SmolLM3-3B-Base
Parameters 4.0 B 3.1 B
Architecture Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration SmolLM3ForCausalLM
Context length — 65,536
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 8
Downloads 30d 170,149 213,155
Downloads all time 9.6 M 2.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub — SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-06-17 2025-06-19

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

3.1 M161 K
OTel-LLM-E4B-IT SmolLM3-3B-Base

VRAM side by side

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

SmolLM3-3B-Base · fp16 7.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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