What are the hardware requirements for Granite 4.2 30B?

Granite 4.2 30B requires approximately 58.2 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 4.2 30B and how large is it?

Granite 4.2 30B is developed by ibm-granite, a model with 30b 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 4.2 30B?

Granite 4.2 30B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite 4.2 30B by ibm-granite — VRAM 58.2GB, 128K context

Name: Granite 4.2 30B
Author: ibm-granite

Granite 4.2 30B is an open-source language model by ibm-granite. Features: 30b LLM, VRAM: 58.2GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.36.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b

Granite 4.2 30B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite 4.2 30B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b
Base Model(s)	ibm-granite/granite-4.1-30b-base ibm-granite/granite-4.1-30b-base
Model Size	30b
Required VRAM	58.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-26
Maintainer	ibm-granite
Model Type	granite
Model Files	5.2 GB: 1-of-11 5.3 GB: 2-of-11 5.3 GB: 3-of-11 5.3 GB: 4-of-11 5.3 GB: 5-of-11 5.3 GB: 6-of-11 5.3 GB: 7-of-11 5.3 GB: 8-of-11 5.3 GB: 9-of-11 5.3 GB: 10-of-11 5.3 GB: 11-of-11
Supported Languages	en de es fr ja pt ar cs it ko nl zh
Model Architecture	GraniteForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|im_end\|>
Vocabulary Size	100352
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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