What are the hardware requirements for Granite 4.1 8B?

Granite 4.1 8B 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 and how large is it?

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

How does Granite 4.1 8B perform on standard benchmarks?

Granite 4.1 8B has the following published scores: LMSYS ELO 1307. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Granite 4.1 8B by ibm-granite — VRAM 17.6GB, 128K context

Name: Granite 4.1 8B
Author: ibm-granite

Granite 4.1 8B is an open-source language model by ibm-granite. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 17.6GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.49, ELO: 1307.

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-4.1-8b

Granite 4.1 8B Benchmarks

LMSys ELO: 1307 vs 1272 (so35)^2.8%

LLME Score: 0.49427

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

What is the LLM Explorer Rank (Score)

Granite 4.1 8B (ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b)

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Granite 4.1 8B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite 4.1 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	17.6 GB
Updated	2026-05-07
Maintainer	ibm-granite
Model Type	granite
Model Files	4.8 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 2.8 GB: 4-of-4
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

Quantized Models of the Granite 4.1 8B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Granite 4.1 8B 8bit	2	794	9 GB
Granite 4.1 8B Fp8	12	11768	9 GB

Best Alternatives to Granite 4.1 8B

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Granite 3.1 8B Instruct	128K / 16.4 GB	73170	168
Granite 4.1 8B Base	128K / 16.8 GB	18630	25
Granite Guardian 4.1 8B	128K / 16.8 GB	10001	28
Granite 3.1 8B Reasoning	128K / 16.4 GB	4	1
Granite 3.1 8B Instruct	128K / 16.4 GB	124	1
Granite 3.2 8B Instruct	128K / 16.4 GB	2656	91
IBM Granite 4.1 8B Heretic	128K / 16.8 GB	257	6
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct	128K / 16.4 GB	73741	157
Granite 4.1 8B FlintStones V1	128K / 17.6 GB	132	3
Granite 4.1 8B Apostate	128K / 17.6 GB	21	0

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