pythia-160m vs openai-gpt

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

EleutherAI · A
Params
210 M
Context
2,048
30d
2.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
openai-community · B
Params
120 M
Context
30d
189 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification pythia-160m openai-gpt
Parameters 210 M 120 M
Architecture GPTNeoXForCausalLM OpenAIGPTLMHeadModel
Context length 2,048
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 2,454,580 189,091
Downloads all time 20.8 M 7.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-02-08 2022-03-02

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

2.5 M181 K
pythia-160m openai-gpt

VRAM side by side

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

pythia-160m · fp16 0.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
openai-gpt · fp16 1.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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