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Pythia 160m vs SmolLM2 135M
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Winner summary
Pythia 160m wins on 3/6 benchmarks
Pythia 160m wins 3 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge · reasoning.
Category leads
general·SmolLM2 135Mknowledge·Pythia 160mlanguage·SmolLM2 135Mmath·SmolLM2 135Mreasoning·Pythia 160m
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Pythia 160m
#235 by perf·no signal
SmolLM2 135M
#236 by perf·no signal
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
eleutherai
private · undisclosed
HF
Hugging Face TB
private · undisclosed
Head to head
6 benchmarks · 2 models
Pythia 160mSmolLM2 135M
BBH (HuggingFace)
SmolLM2 135M leads by +1.5
Pythia 160m
2.2
SmolLM2 135M
3.7
GPQA
Pythia 160m leads by +1.1
Pythia 160m
1.1
SmolLM2 135M
0.0
IFEval
SmolLM2 135M leads by +0.0
Pythia 160m
18.2
SmolLM2 135M
18.2
MATH Level 5
SmolLM2 135M leads by +0.3
Pythia 160m
0.9
SmolLM2 135M
1.2
MMLU-PRO
Pythia 160m leads by +0.3
Pythia 160m
1.3
SmolLM2 135M
1.1
MUSR
Pythia 160m leads by +0.7
Pythia 160m
10.7
SmolLM2 135M
10.0
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Pythia 160m | SmolLM2 135M |
|---|---|---|
BBH (HuggingFace) | 2.2 | 3.7 |
GPQA | 1.1 | 0.0 |
IFEval | 18.2 | 18.2 |
MATH Level 5 | 0.9 | 1.2 |
MMLU-PRO | 1.3 | 1.1 |
MUSR | 10.7 | 10.0 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pythia 160m | — | — | — | — |
HF SmolLM2 135M | — | — | — | — |