SmolLM2-135M-Instruct vs gemma-3-270m
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
HuggingFaceTB · A
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 | SmolLM2-135M-Instruct | gemma-3-270m |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 130 M | 270 M |
| Architecture | LlamaForCausalLM | Gemma3ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 8,192 | — |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | gemma |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Conditional |
| Languages | 1 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 1,974,974 | 2,148,430 |
| Downloads all time | 13.0 M | 15.7 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | Yes — accept licence |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-10-31 | 2025-08-05 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
2.1 M2.0 M
SmolLM2-135M-Instruct
gemma-3-270m
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
SmolLM2-135M-Instruct · fp16
0.8 GB / 24 GB
gemma-3-270m · fp16
1.1 GB / 24 GB