What are the hardware requirements for Granite Guardian 3.1 2B?

Granite Guardian 3.1 2B requires approximately 5.1 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 Guardian 3.1 2B and how large is it?

Granite Guardian 3.1 2B is developed by ibm-granite, a model with 2b 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 3.1 2B?

Granite Guardian 3.1 2B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite Guardian 3.1 2B by ibm-granite — VRAM 5.1GB, 128K context

Name: Granite Guardian 3.1 2B
Author: ibm-granite

Granite Guardian 3.1 2B is an open-source language model by ibm-granite. Features: 2b LLM, VRAM: 5.1GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

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

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-guardian-3.1-2b

Granite Guardian 3.1 2B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite Guardian 3.1 2B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-guardian-3.1-2b
Model Size	2b
Required VRAM	5.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	ibm-granite
Model Type	granite
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 0.1 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	GraniteForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.46.3
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|end_of_text\|>
Vocabulary Size	49155
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Granite 3.1 2B Instruct	128K / 5.1 GB	13394	57
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Granite 3.3 2B Instruct	128K / 5.1 GB	49253	85
Granite 3.3 2B Base	128K / 5.1 GB	5966	23
Granite 3.1 2B Base	128K / 5.1 GB	1545	14
Granite 3.3 2B Instruct	128K / 5.1 GB	117	2
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Granite 3.2 2B Instruct	128K / 5.1 GB	8	4
Granite Guardian 3.0 2B	8K / 5.1 GB	2826	22
Granite 3.0 2B Instruct	4K / 5.3 GB	12390	48

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than ibm-granite/granite-guardian-3.1-2b.