granite-4.1-8b vs falcon-7b
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | granite-4.1-8b | falcon-7b |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.8 B | 7.2 B |
| Architecture | GraniteForCausalLM | FalconForCausalLM |
| Context length | 131,072 | — |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 4,208,265 | 1,183,152 |
| Downloads all time | 5.0 M | 15.7 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-04-06 | 2023-04-24 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
4.2 M1.2 M
granite-4.1-8b
falcon-7b
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
falcon-7b · fp16
17.5 GB / 24 GB
granite-4.1-8b · fp16 @ 128K ctx
40.9 GB / 24 GB