What are the hardware requirements for Granite 3.1 1B A400m Base?

Granite 3.1 1B A400m Base requires approximately 2.7 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 3.1 1B A400m Base and how large is it?

Granite 3.1 1B A400m Base is developed by ibm-granite, a model with 1b 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 3.1 1B A400m Base?

Granite 3.1 1B A400m Base is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite 3.1 1B A400m Base by ibm-granite — VRAM 2.7GB, 128K context

Name: Granite 3.1 1B A400m Base
Author: ibm-granite

Granite 3.1 1B A400m Base is an open-source language model by ibm-granite. Features: 1b LLM, VRAM: 2.7GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Arxiv:0000.00000 Eval-results Granite-3.1 Granitemoe Language Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-3.1-1b-a400m-base

Granite 3.1 1B A400m Base Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite 3.1 1B A400m Base
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-3.1-1b-a400m-base
Model Size	1b
Required VRAM	2.7 GB
Updated	2026-07-19
Maintainer	ibm-granite
Model Type	granitemoe
Model Files	2.0 GB: 1-of-2 0.7 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	GraniteMoeForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.46.0
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	49152
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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