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SmolLM2 135M Instruct vs Distilgpt2
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Winner summary
Distilgpt2 wins on 4/6 benchmarks
Distilgpt2 wins 4 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge · math · reasoning.
Category leads
general·SmolLM2 135M Instructknowledge·Distilgpt2language·SmolLM2 135M Instructmath·Distilgpt2reasoning·Distilgpt2
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
SmolLM2 135M Instruct
#220 by perf·no signal
Distilgpt2
#239 by perf·no signal
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
HF
Hugging Face TB
private · undisclosed
D
DistilBERT
private · undisclosed
Head to head
6 benchmarks · 2 models
SmolLM2 135M InstructDistilgpt2
BBH (HuggingFace)
SmolLM2 135M Instruct leads by +1.9
SmolLM2 135M Instruct
4.7
Distilgpt2
2.8
GPQA
Distilgpt2 leads by +1.2
SmolLM2 135M Instruct
0.0
Distilgpt2
1.2
IFEval
SmolLM2 135M Instruct leads by +22.7
SmolLM2 135M Instruct
28.8
Distilgpt2
6.1
MATH Level 5
Distilgpt2 leads by +0.3
SmolLM2 135M Instruct
0.3
Distilgpt2
0.6
MMLU-PRO
Distilgpt2 leads by +0.8
SmolLM2 135M Instruct
1.3
Distilgpt2
2.1
MUSR
Distilgpt2 leads by +7.5
SmolLM2 135M Instruct
3.7
Distilgpt2
11.2
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | SmolLM2 135M Instruct | Distilgpt2 |
|---|---|---|
BBH (HuggingFace) | 4.7 | 2.8 |
GPQA | 0.0 | 1.2 |
IFEval | 28.8 | 6.1 |
MATH Level 5 | 0.3 | 0.6 |
MMLU-PRO | 1.3 | 2.1 |
MUSR | 3.7 | 11.2 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
HF SmolLM2 135M Instruct | — | — | — | — |
D Distilgpt2 | — | — | — | — |