What are the hardware requirements for Granite 7B Instruct?

Granite 7B Instruct requires approximately 13.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Granite 7B Instruct and how large is it?

Granite 7B Instruct is developed by ibm-granite, a model with 7b 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 7B Instruct?

Granite 7B Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite 7B Instruct by ibm-granite — VRAM 13.5GB, 4K context

Name: Granite 7B Instruct
Author: ibm-granite

Granite 7B Instruct is an open-source language model by ibm-granite. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 13.5GB, Context: 4K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.16.

Arxiv:2403.01081 Base model:finetune:ibm-granit... Base model:ibm-granite/granite... Conversational Deploy:azure En Endpoints compatible Granite Ibm Instruct Lab Labrador Labradorite Llama Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-7b-instruct

Granite 7B Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite 7B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-7b-instruct
Base Model(s)	ibm/granite-7b-base ibm/granite-7b-base
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	13.5 GB
Updated	2026-05-15
Maintainer	ibm-granite
Model Type	llama
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-3 5.0 GB: 2-of-3 3.6 GB: 3-of-3
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	LlamaForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.40.0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizer
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	32008

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