What are the hardware requirements for Granite Guardian 3.0 8B?

Granite Guardian 3.0 8B requires approximately 16.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 8K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Granite Guardian 3.0 8B and how large is it?

Granite Guardian 3.0 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.

Where can I download or evaluate Granite Guardian 3.0 8B?

Granite Guardian 3.0 8B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite Guardian 3.0 8B by ibm-granite — VRAM 16.4GB, 8K context

Name: Granite Guardian 3.0 8B
Author: ibm-granite

Granite Guardian 3.0 8B is an open-source language model by ibm-granite. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 16.4GB, Context: 8K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.15.

Arxiv:2412.07724 Conversational En Endpoints compatible Granite Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-guardian-3.0-8b

Granite Guardian 3.0 8B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite Guardian 3.0 8B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-guardian-3.0-8b
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	16.4 GB
Updated	2026-07-25
Maintainer	ibm-granite
Model Type	granite
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 1.4 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	GraniteForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	8192
Model Max Length	8192
Transformers Version	4.45.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	49155
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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