pythia-160m vs SmolLM2-135M-Instruct

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
HuggingFaceTB · B
Params
130 M
Context
8,192
30d
2.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification pythia-160m SmolLM2-135M-Instruct
Parameters 210 M 130 M
Architecture GPTNeoXForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 2,048 8,192
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 2,454,580 1,974,974
Downloads all time 20.8 M 13.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-02-08 2024-10-31

Download trend

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

2.5 M2.0 M
pythia-160m SmolLM2-135M-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

SmolLM2-135M-Instruct · fp16 0.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
pythia-160m · fp16 0.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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