DistilBERT

Hugging Face · 2019 · LLM · France

Overview

60% faster BERT. 97% performance.

Vendor: Hugging Face
Type: LLM
Release year: 2019
Jurisdiction: France
CEO: Clément Delangue
Key staffers: Thomas Wolf (CSO & Co-Founder), Julien Chaumond (CTO & Co-Founder)
Deployment: Cloud
Open source: Yes
Free tier: Yes
Subscription: Free + paid plans (Hub/Inference) vary
Stock status: Private ($4.5B valuation)
X: @huggingface

Last verified 2026-05-12 · Primary source ↗

“DistilBERT.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/distilbert.html