What are the hardware requirements for Granite Guardian 3.2 3B A800m?

Granite Guardian 3.2 3B A800m requires approximately 6.6 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 Guardian 3.2 3B A800m and how large is it?

Granite Guardian 3.2 3B A800m is developed by ibm-granite, a model with 3b 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 3.2 3B A800m?

Granite Guardian 3.2 3B A800m is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite Guardian 3.2 3B A800m by ibm-granite — VRAM 6.6GB, 128K context

Name: Granite Guardian 3.2 3B A800m
Author: ibm-granite

Granite Guardian 3.2 3B A800m is an open-source language model by ibm-granite. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.6GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

Arxiv:2306.11247 Arxiv:2412.07724 Conversational Endpoints compatible Granitemoe Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-guardian-3.2-3b-a800m

Granite Guardian 3.2 3B A800m Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite Guardian 3.2 3B A800m
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-guardian-3.2-3b-a800m
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.6 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	ibm-granite
Model Type	granitemoe
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.6 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	GraniteMoeForCausalLM
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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Best Alternatives to Granite Guardian 3.2 3B A800m

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Granite 3.1 3B A800m Instruct	128K / 6.6 GB	5769	30
Granite 3.1 3B A800m Base	128K / 6.6 GB	1902	10
PowerMoE 3B	4K / 13.5 GB	1843751	22
Granite 3.0 3B A800m Instruct	4K / 6.8 GB	3574	20
PowerMoE 3B	4K / 13.5 GB	15341	11
Granite 3.0 3B A800m Base	4K / 13.5 GB	360	5

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