What are the hardware requirements for Granite 4.1 3B?

Granite 4.1 3B 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 4.1 3B and how large is it?

Granite 4.1 3B is developed by ibm-granite, a model with 3b 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 3B?

Granite 4.1 3B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite 4.1 3B by ibm-granite — VRAM 6.8GB, 128K context

Name: Granite 4.1 3B
Author: ibm-granite

Granite 4.1 3B is an open-source language model by ibm-granite. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.8GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.36.

Arxiv:0000.00000 Conversational Deploy:azure Endpoints compatible Eval-results Granite Granite-4.1 Language Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-3b

Granite 4.1 3B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite 4.1 3B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-3b
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.8 GB
Updated	2026-08-05
Maintainer	ibm-granite
Model Type	granite
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.8 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	GraniteForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.53.3
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	100352
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Quantized Models of the Granite 4.1 3B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Granite 4.1 3B Fp8	8	2169	4 GB

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...anite 4.1 3B Medical Reasoning	128K / 6.8 GB	262	1
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Granite 4.1 3B	128K / 6.8 GB	2076	6
Granite 4.1 3B SFT Fable5	128K / 6.8 GB	468	0
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...ranite 4.1 3B SFT Fable5 Glint	128K / 6.8 GB	58	0
Granite 4.1 3B Bf16	128K / 6.8 GB	93	1
Granite 4.1 3B Mxfp8	128K / 3.5 GB	43	1