What are the hardware requirements for Granite 4.2 8B Heretic?

Granite 4.2 8B Heretic requires approximately 17.6 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 4.2 8B Heretic and how large is it?

Granite 4.2 8B Heretic is developed by richardyoung, 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 4.2 8B Heretic?

Granite 4.2 8B Heretic is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Granite 4.2 8B Heretic by richardyoung — VRAM 17.6GB, 128K context

Name: Granite 4.2 8B Heretic
Author: richardyoung

Granite 4.2 8B Heretic is an open-source language model by richardyoung. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 17.6GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.31.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/richardyoung/granite-4.2-8b-heretic

Granite 4.2 8B Heretic Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Granite 4.2 8B Heretic
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/richardyoung/granite-4.2-8b-heretic
Base Model(s)	ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	17.6 GB
Updated	2026-10-15
Maintainer	richardyoung
Model Type	granite
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-4 5.0 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 2.7 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en de es fr ja pt ar cs it ko nl zh
Model Architecture	GraniteForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	5.17.0
Tokenizer Class	GPT2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|im_end\|>
Vocabulary Size	100352
Errors	replace

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Best Alternatives to Granite 4.2 8B Heretic

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Granite 4.1 8B	128K / 17.6 GB	21803	161
Granite 3.1 8B Instruct	128K / 16.4 GB	138888	168
Granite 4.2 8B	128K / 17.6 GB	1628	30
Granite 4.1 8B Base	128K / 16.8 GB	11348	25
Granite Guardian 4.1 8B	128K / 16.8 GB	35637	33
Granite 3.1 8B Reasoning	128K / 16.4 GB	5	1
Granite 3.1 8B Instruct	128K / 16.4 GB	185	1
Granite 4.2 8B Fp8	128K / 9.7 GB	2092	1
Vinci MLE 8B 1.0	128K / 17.6 GB	255	0
Granite 3.2 8B Instruct	128K / 16.4 GB	3792	92

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than richardyoung/granite-4.2-8b-heretic.