pythia-160m vs gemma-3-270m

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

EleutherAI · A
Params
210 M
Context
2,048
30d
3.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
google · B
Params
270 M
Context
30d
395 K
gemma licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification pythia-160m gemma-3-270m
Parameters 210 M 270 M
Architecture GPTNeoXForCausalLM Gemma3ForCausalLM
Context length 2,048
Licence apache-2.0 gemma
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 3,462,352 394,664
Downloads all time 26.3 M 17.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2023-02-08 2025-08-05

Download trend

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

3.5 M395 K
pythia-160m gemma-3-270m

VRAM side by side

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

pythia-160m · fp16 0.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gemma-3-270m · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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