What are the hardware requirements for Granite 4.1 8B Apostate?

Granite 4.1 8B Apostate requires approximately 17.6 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Granite 4.1 8B Apostate and how large is it?

Granite 4.1 8B Apostate is developed by Spaceballs, a model with 8b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Granite 4.1 8B Apostate?

Granite 4.1 8B Apostate is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite 4.1 8B Apostate by Spaceballs — VRAM 17.6GB, 128K context

Name: Granite 4.1 8B Apostate
Author: Spaceballs

Granite 4.1 8B Apostate is an open-source language model by Spaceballs. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 17.6GB, Context: 128K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.24.

Apostate Base model:finetune:ibm-granit... Base model:ibm-granite/granite... Conversational Endpoints compatible Granite Model-edit Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Spaceballs/granite-4.1-8b-apostate

Granite 4.1 8B Apostate Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite 4.1 8B Apostate
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Spaceballs/granite-4.1-8b-apostate
Base Model(s)	ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	17.6 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	Spaceballs
Model Type	granite
Model Files	17.6 GB
Model Architecture	GraniteForCausalLM
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	5.10.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	100352

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