What are the hardware requirements for Granite 4.0 Micro?

Granite 4.0 Micro requires approximately 6.8 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 4.0 Micro and how large is it?

Granite 4.0 Micro is developed by ibm-granite, a model with 3.4b 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 4.0 Micro?

Granite 4.0 Micro is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite 4.0 Micro by ibm-granite — VRAM 6.8GB, 128K context

Name: Granite 4.0 Micro
Author: ibm-granite

Granite 4.0 Micro is an open-source language model by ibm-granite. Features: 3.4b LLM, VRAM: 6.8GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.3.

Arxiv:0000.00000 Conversational Deploy:azure Endpoints compatible Granite-4.0 Granitemoehybrid Language Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-micro

Granite 4.0 Micro Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite 4.0 Micro
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-micro
Model Size	3.4b
Required VRAM	6.8 GB
Updated	2026-07-28
Maintainer	ibm-granite
Model Type	granitemoehybrid
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-2 1.9 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	GraniteMoeHybridForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.56.0
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	100352
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Quantized Models of the Granite 4.0 Micro

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
...ite 4.0 Micro Unsloth Bnb 4bit	3	393	2 GB

Best Alternatives to Granite 4.0 Micro

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Granite 4.0 Micro Base	128K / 6.8 GB	596	40
Granite 4.0 Micro	128K / 6.8 GB	613	2
Granite 4.0 Micro Base	128K / 6.8 GB	20	2