SmolLM3 3B on Pi 5

Snapshot 2026-10-27 · ai-tier

Raspberry Pi 5 · 16 GB RAMAll performance measurements are for this device.

Capability shows how well the model answers the benchmark questions. Speed, response time and memory are measured on Raspberry Pi 5 · 16 GB.

Capability summarises instruction following, tool calling and finding information in long prompts. Speed and memory refer to the Raspberry Pi 5. — means unavailable.
Model	Capability / 100	Output tok/s	Prompt tok/s	First token · s	Task time · s	Peak memory · MiB	Parameters · B
SmolLM3 3BQ4_K_M · 4,096 context · reasoning off	65	6.1	29.1	15.1	70	4,088	3

Benchmark breakdown

Instruction following · IFEval	Tool calling · BFCL	Finding information · RULER
64	67	64

Test configuration

Model publisher: Hugging Face
Model parameters: 3 billion total
Published input support: text (metadata; not device validation)
Quantization: Q4_K_M
Context capacity: 4,096 tokens
Reasoning mode: off
CPU threads / parallel requests: 4 / 1
Temperature / seed: 0 / 42
Measurement date: 2026-10-19T01:12:07.368913+00:00
Result ID: split-d9da8cf0ffcffc2b5acf
Runtime revision: 620d2225cc436ab0b001e3200e590e3b286ef9ab
Artifact repository / revision: ggml-org/SmolLM3-3B-GGUF / 4965cb60b150737b68a0408c36aeefb65078f894
Artifact SHA256: 8334b850b7bd46238c16b0c550df2138f0889bf433809008cc17a8b05761863e
Dataset revision: a0fc00b6a07455d1efb70cc19d5ca94c5923c5261a0b41095083a41a1592a1f6
Configuration identity: ae2b8182ac0c3aef79c79c3e1ed5a9e7ebb3dbbc6cad81c96c616fe0a8bb8b71

Measurement limits

Speed tests read 256 input tokens and generate 128 output tokens, repeated ten times. The output speed test starts without a long conversation history. Answer time uses six fixed prompts with up to 128 output tokens, repeated three times. First-text time is measured from the application making the request. Peak memory includes the loaded model; it excludes other applications on the device. Longer prompts may need more memory. Capability uses a fixed selection of public questions, rather than the full official benchmarks.

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Measured 2026-10-19T01:12:07.368913+00:00.