t5-small vs nllb-200-distilled-600M

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

google-t5 · A · Open weights
Params
60 M
Context
—
30d
21.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
facebook · B · Open weights
Params
600 M
Context
1,024
30d
932 K
cc-by-nc-4.0 · non-commercial

Specification comparison

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Specification t5-small nllb-200-distilled-600M
Parameters 60 M 600 M
Architecture T5ForConditionalGeneration M2M100ForConditionalGeneration
Context length — 1,024
Licence apache-2.0 cc-by-nc-4.0
Commercial use Allowed Not allowed
Languages 5 196
Downloads 30d 21,647,788 931,944
Downloads all time 305.8 M 31.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS —
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2022-07-08

Download trend

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

25.0 M793 K
t5-small nllb-200-distilled-600M

VRAM side by side

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

t5-small · fp16 0.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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