SmolLM2-135M-Instruct vs pythia-70m-deduped

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

HuggingFaceTB · A · Open weights
Params
130 M
Context
8,192
30d
847 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
EleutherAI · B · Open weights
Params
100 M
Context
2,048
30d
729 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification SmolLM2-135M-Instruct pythia-70m-deduped
Parameters 130 M 100 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 847,496 728,542
Downloads all time 17.4 M 17.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-10-31 2023-02-13

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

1.9 M729 K
SmolLM2-135M-Instruct pythia-70m-deduped A overtook B on 7 Nov

VRAM side by side

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

pythia-70m-deduped · fp16 0.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
SmolLM2-135M-Instruct · fp16 0.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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