SmolLM3 3B
Hugging Face · USA
Fully open small model: Apache 2.0 weights, training data published, engineering blueprint public. 6 native languages (EN/FR/ES/DE/IT/PT) covers major EU markets. 128K context via YARN. Strong default for edge or on-prem EU deployments where transparency matters.
Licence facts
- Licence
- Apache 2.0
- Commercial use
- Unrestricted
- Derivatives
- Allowed
- Attribution
- Required
- Parameters
- 3B dense
- Context
- 64K trained, 128K via YARN
- Languages
- EN / FR / ES / DE / IT / PT (+ secondary AR/ZH/RU)
- Training data
- 11.2T tokens (FineWeb-Edu, DCLM, FineWeb2-HQ — published)
- Reproducibility
- Full training blueprint published
- Last updated
- 2025-Q3
Known risks
- Small capacity: 3B won't match frontier quality on complex reasoning
- HF org is US-incorporated despite French heritage — see Hugging Face provider entry
Sources
Reviewed by Ali Madjaji · Last reviewed 2026-04-16