SmolLM2-135M vs tiny_starcoder_py

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 20 September 2026.

HuggingFaceTB · A
Params
130 M
Context
8,192
30d
2.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
bigcode · B
Params
160 M
Context
30d
281 K

Specification comparison

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Specification SmolLM2-135M tiny_starcoder_py
Parameters 130 M 160 M
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM GPTBigCodeForCausalLM
Context length 8,192
Licence apache-2.0 bigcode-openrail-m
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 2,105,264 280,778
Downloads all time 20.6 M 1.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-10-31 2023-05-15

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 55 days (28 Jul – 20 Sep)

2.6 M214 K
SmolLM2-135M tiny_starcoder_py

VRAM side by side

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

SmolLM2-135M · fp16 0.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
tiny_starcoder_py · fp16 1.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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