What are the hardware requirements for Granite 4.0 1B Base 5bit?

Granite 4.0 1B Base 5bit requires approximately 1.1 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 4.0 1B Base 5bit and how large is it?

Granite 4.0 1B Base 5bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 1b 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 4.0 1B Base 5bit?

Granite 4.0 1B Base 5bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite 4.0 1B Base 5bit by mlx-community — VRAM 1.1GB, 128K context

Name: Granite 4.0 1B Base 5bit
Author: mlx-community

Granite 4.0 1B Base 5bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 1b LLM, VRAM: 1.1GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21.

5-bit 5bit Base model:ibm-granite/granite... Base model:quantized:ibm-grani... Granite-4.0 Granitemoehybrid Language Mlx Quantized Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/granite-4.0-1b-base-5bit

Granite 4.0 1B Base 5bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite 4.0 1B Base 5bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/granite-4.0-1b-base-5bit
Base Model(s)	ibm-granite/granite-4.0-1b-base ibm-granite/granite-4.0-1b-base
Model Size	1b
Required VRAM	1.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-10
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	granitemoehybrid
Model Files	1.1 GB
Quantization Type	5bit
Model Architecture	GraniteMoeHybridForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.56.0
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|pad\|>
Vocabulary Size	100352
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Best Alternatives to Granite 4.0 1B Base 5bit

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Granite 4.0 H 1B 4bit	128K / 0.8 GB	65	1
Granite 4.0 1B 4bit	128K / 0.9 GB	41	1
Granite 4.0 1B Base 4bit	128K / 0.9 GB	15	1
Granite 4.0 H 1B 8bit	128K / 1.6 GB	15	1
Granite 4.0 H 1B Base 8bit	128K / 1.6 GB	12	1
IBM Grok4 UltraFastCoder 1B	128K / 3.3 GB	4114	3
Granite 4.0 H 1B	128K / 2.9 GB	4253	148
IBM Grok4 UltraFast Coder 1B	128K / 3.3 GB	513	3
Granite 4.0 1B	128K / 3.3 GB	6556	53
Granite 4.0 1B Base	128K / 3.3 GB	5599	32

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mlx-community/granite-4.0-1b-base-5bit.