granite-4.1-8b vs gemma4-e4b-claims-comparison

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

ibm-granite · A
Params
8.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
4.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
k-chirkunov · B
Params
7.9 B
Context
30d
170 K
gemma licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification granite-4.1-8b gemma4-e4b-claims-comparison
Parameters 8.8 B 7.9 B
Architecture GraniteForCausalLM Gemma4ForConditionalGeneration
Context length 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 gemma
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 2
Downloads 30d 4,208,265 170,109
Downloads all time 5.0 M 170 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2026-04-06 2026-07-14

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

4.2 M170 K
granite-4.1-8b gemma4-e4b-claims-comparison

VRAM side by side

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

gemma4-e4b-claims-comparison · fp16 19.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
granite-4.1-8b · fp16 @ 128K ctx 40.9 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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