pythia-160m vs SmolLM2-135M-Instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
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
pythia-160m · fp16
0.9 GB / 24 GB