pythia-160m vs tiny_starcoder_py

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
bigcode · B
Params
160 M
Context
30d
249 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification pythia-160m tiny_starcoder_py
Parameters 210 M 160 M
Architecture GPTNeoXForCausalLM GPTBigCodeForCausalLM
Context length 2,048
Licence apache-2.0 bigcode-openrail-m
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 2,454,580 249,481
Downloads all time 20.8 M 1.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-02-08 2023-05-15

Download trend

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

2.5 M246 K
pythia-160m tiny_starcoder_py

VRAM side by side

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

pythia-160m · fp16 0.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
tiny_starcoder_py · fp16 1.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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