pythia-160m vs SmolLM2-135M-Instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
EleutherAI · A · Open weights
Params
210 M
Context
2,048
30d
3.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
HuggingFaceTB · B · Open weights
Params
130 M
Context
8,192
30d
847 K
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 | 3,495,753 | 847,496 |
| Downloads all time | 32.2 M | 17.4 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 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
3.5 M827 K
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