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SmolLM2 135M Instruct vs Qwen2 0.5B Instruct
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Winner summary
SmolLM2 135M Instruct wins on 3/6 benchmarks
SmolLM2 135M Instruct wins 3 of 6 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge · language · reasoning.
Category leads
general·Qwen2 0.5B Instructknowledge·SmolLM2 135M Instructlanguage·SmolLM2 135M Instructmath·Qwen2 0.5B Instructreasoning·SmolLM2 135M Instruct
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
SmolLM2 135M Instruct
#220 by perf·no signal
Qwen2 0.5B Instruct
#232 by perf·no signal
Best value
Pricing unknown
SmolLM2 135M Instruct
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no price
Qwen2 0.5B Instruct
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no price
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
HF
Hugging Face TB
private · undisclosed
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
6 benchmarks · 2 models
SmolLM2 135M InstructQwen2 0.5B Instruct
BBH (HuggingFace)
Qwen2 0.5B Instruct leads by +1.2
SmolLM2 135M Instruct
4.7
Qwen2 0.5B Instruct
5.9
GPQA
SmolLM2 135M Instruct
0.0
Qwen2 0.5B Instruct
0.0
IFEval
SmolLM2 135M Instruct leads by +6.4
SmolLM2 135M Instruct
28.8
Qwen2 0.5B Instruct
22.5
MATH Level 5
Qwen2 0.5B Instruct leads by +2.6
SmolLM2 135M Instruct
0.3
Qwen2 0.5B Instruct
2.9
MMLU-PRO
Qwen2 0.5B Instruct leads by +4.6
SmolLM2 135M Instruct
1.3
Qwen2 0.5B Instruct
5.9
MUSR
SmolLM2 135M Instruct leads by +1.3
SmolLM2 135M Instruct
3.7
Qwen2 0.5B Instruct
2.4
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | SmolLM2 135M Instruct | Qwen2 0.5B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
BBH (HuggingFace) | 4.7 | 5.9 |
GPQA | 0.0 | 0.0 |
IFEval | 28.8 | 22.5 |
MATH Level 5 | 0.3 | 2.9 |
MMLU-PRO | 1.3 | 5.9 |
MUSR | 3.7 | 2.4 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
HF SmolLM2 135M Instruct | — | — | — | — |
| Qwen2 0.5B Instruct | — | — | — | — |