phi-2 vs SmolLM3-3B-Base
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 September 2026.
HuggingFaceTB · B · Open weights
Params
3.1 B
Context
65,536
30d
213 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | phi-2 | SmolLM3-3B-Base |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 2.8 B | 3.1 B |
| Architecture | PhiForCausalLM | SmolLM3ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 2,048 | 65,536 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | 8 |
| Downloads 30d | 177,546 | 213,155 |
| Downloads all time | 23.9 M | 2.0 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-12-13 | 2025-06-19 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
1.6 M161 K
phi-2
SmolLM3-3B-Base
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
phi-2 · fp16
7.0 GB / 24 GB
SmolLM3-3B-Base · fp16
7.7 GB / 24 GB