Model comparison · robotics
SmolVLA 450M vs pi 0.7
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Hugging Face LeRobot · activeSmolVLA 450MVerified Aug 28, 2026
Physical Intelligence · activepi 0.7Verified Aug 28, 2026
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| Field | SmolVLA 450M | pi 0.7 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Hugging Face LeRobot | Physical Intelligence |
| Family | SmolVLA | pi |
| Model | SmolVLA 450M | pi 0.7 |
| Version | 450M | 0.7 |
| Lifecycle | active | active |
| Input modalities | Text, Image, Robot state | Text, Image, Robot state |
| Output modalities | Robot action | Robot action |
| Context window | Unknown | Unknown |
| Total parameters | 450000000 | Unknown |
| Active parameters | Unknown | Unknown |
| License | apache-2.0 | Unknown |
| Open weights | Yes | No |
| API available | No | Unknown |
| Self-hostable | Yes | Unknown |
| Capabilities | asynchronous-inference, fine-tuning, low-cost-hardware, manipulation | cross-embodiment, dexterous-manipulation, language-steering, visual-subgoals |
| Robotics model type | Vision-language-action model | Vision-language-action model |
| Action representation | Continuous action chunks from a flow-matching action expert | Continuous robot actions conditioned by multimodal prompts |
| Control architecture | SmolVLM2 backbone with flow-matching action expert | High-level policy, world model, and action expert |
| Inference location | On device | Unknown |
| Native control rate (Hz) | Unknown | Unknown |
| Supported embodiments | SO-100, SO-101, LeKiwi, LIBERO Franka | mobile manipulators, bimanual UR5e, multiple fixed manipulators |
| Training data | Compatibly licensed LeRobot community datasets totaling fewer than 30,000 episodes in the cited release. | Robot demonstrations, autonomous data, egocentric human data, and multimodal web data described by the publisher. |
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SmolVLA 450M capabilities
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pi 0.7 capabilities
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