granite-4.1-8b vs DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 August 2026.

ibm-granite · A
Params
8.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
218 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
deepseek-ai · B
Params
14.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
340 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification granite-4.1-8b DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B
Parameters 8.8 B 14.8 B
Architecture GraniteForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 217,938 340,281
Downloads all time 6.1 M 9.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-04-06 2025-01-20

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

4.3 M207 K
granite-4.1-8b DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

granite-4.1-8b · fp16 @ 128K ctx 40.9 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 68.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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