pythia-160m vs SmolLM-135M
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | pythia-160m | SmolLM-135M |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 210 M | 130 M |
| Architecture | GPTNeoXForCausalLM | LlamaForCausalLM |
| Context length | 2,048 | 2,048 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 2,454,580 | 292,615 |
| Downloads all time | 20.8 M | 5.2 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2023-02-08 | 2024-07-14 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
2.5 M243 K
pythia-160m
SmolLM-135M
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
pythia-160m · fp16
0.9 GB / 24 GB
SmolLM-135M · fp16
1.1 GB / 24 GB