pythia-160m vs bloom-560m
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
EleutherAI · A · Open weights
Params
210 M
Context
2,048
30d
3.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
bigscience · B · Open weights
Params
560 M
Context
—
30d
378 K
bigscience-bloom-rail-1.0 licence · conditional
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | pythia-160m | bloom-560m |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 210 M | 560 M |
| Architecture | GPTNeoXForCausalLM | BloomForCausalLM |
| Context length | 2,048 | — |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | bigscience-bloom-rail-1.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Conditional |
| Languages | 1 | 48 |
| Downloads 30d | 3,495,753 | 377,922 |
| Downloads all time | 32.2 M | 27.0 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-02-08 | 2022-05-19 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
3.5 M320 K
pythia-160m
bloom-560m
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
pythia-160m · fp16
0.9 GB / 24 GB
bloom-560m · fp16
1.8 GB / 24 GB