granite-4.1-8b vs Kimi-K3-DSpark
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 August 2026.
ibm-granite · A · Open weights
Params
8.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
192 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | granite-4.1-8b | Kimi-K3-DSpark |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.8 B | 2.3 B |
| Architecture | GraniteForCausalLM | DSparkDraftModel |
| Context length | 131,072 | 1,048,576 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | — |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 192,200 | 266,090 |
| Downloads all time | 6.1 M | 11.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-04-06 | 2026-07-27 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
6.6 M192 K
granite-4.1-8b
Kimi-K3-DSpark
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
Kimi-K3-DSpark · fp16 @ 1024K ctx
48.6 GB / 24 GB