SmolLM2-135M-Instruct vs pythia-160m-deduped

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
EleutherAI · B
Params
210 M
Context
2,048
30d
194 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification SmolLM2-135M-Instruct pythia-160m-deduped
Parameters 130 M 210 M
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM GPTNeoXForCausalLM
Context length 8,192 2,048
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 1,974,974 194,143
Downloads all time 13.0 M 2.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-10-31 2023-02-08

Download trend

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

2.1 M162 K
SmolLM2-135M-Instruct pythia-160m-deduped

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-deduped · fp16 0.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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