Gemma · 1B · In LM Mini

Gemma 3 1B Instruct on a phone

Google’s smallest Gemma 3 chat model. Great starter for everyday questions.

Parameters
1B
Typical Q4
~700–750 MB
RAM to budget
~1.8 GB
Engines
GGUF · MLX

Get it running

google/gemma-3-1b-it. Instruct-tuned; GGUF + MLX. Hugging Face: google/gemma-3-1b-it.

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Phones that can run it

Tight (close other apps)