SmolLM 360M
360M SmolLM model balancing size and quality for edge use.
About
SmolLM 360M is the middle member of Hugging Face's SmolLM family, released July 16, 2024 alongside the 135M and 1.7B sizes. Trained on 600 billion tokens of the SmolLM-Corpus with grouped-query attention, it delivers noticeably stronger quality than the 135M while still running comfortably on phones and laptops.
Like its siblings it ships under Apache 2.0 in base and instruct-tuned variants, with DPO applied on the instruct version. It became a popular default for on-device chat demos and edge experiments.
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Verified via vendor site/docs/GitHub and reputable coverage, wave 126; Trending score 76/100 from researcher assessment.