What are the hardware requirements for Granite Vision 4.1 4B?

Granite Vision 4.1 4B requires approximately 8 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Granite Vision 4.1 4B and how large is it?

Granite Vision 4.1 4B is developed by ibm-granite, a model with 4b 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 Vision 4.1 4B?

Granite Vision 4.1 4B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite Vision 4.1 4B by ibm-granite — VRAM 8GB

Name: Granite Vision 4.1 4B
Author: ibm-granite

Granite Vision 4.1 4B is an open-source language model by ibm-granite. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 8GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.35.

Arxiv:2208.00385 Arxiv:2406.04334 Arxiv:2502.09927 Arxiv:2603.27064 Conversational Custom code Deploy:azure En Endpoints compatible Eval-results Granite4 vision Image-text-to-text Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Vision

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-vision-4.1-4b

Granite Vision 4.1 4B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite Vision 4.1 4B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-vision-4.1-4b
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	8 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	ibm-granite
Model Type	granite4_vision
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 3.0 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Granite4VisionForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Transformers Version	4.57.3
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Errors	replace

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