SmolLM2-135M vs SmolLM-135M-Instruct-FP32

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

HuggingFaceTB · A · Open weights
Params
130 M
Context
8,192
30d
1.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
modularai · B · Open weights
Params
135 M
Context
2,048
30d
143 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification SmolLM2-135M SmolLM-135M-Instruct-FP32
Parameters 130 M 135 M
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 8,192 2,048
Licence apache-2.0 —
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 1,895,357 143,038
Downloads all time 22.9 M 313 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-10-31 2025-07-31

Download trend

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22.9 M
SmolLM2-135M · all-time downloads
313 K
SmolLM-135M-Instruct-FP32 · all-time downloads

VRAM side by side

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

SmolLM2-135M · fp16 0.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
SmolLM-135M-Instruct-FP32 · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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