granite-4.1-8b vs Llama-3.1-8B
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | granite-4.1-8b | Llama-3.1-8B |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.8 B | 8.0 B |
| Architecture | GraniteForCausalLM | LlamaForCausalLM |
| Context length | 131,072 | — |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | llama3.1 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Conditional |
| Languages | — | 8 |
| Downloads 30d | 4,208,265 | 1,515,292 |
| Downloads all time | 5.0 M | 27.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | Yes — accept licence |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-04-06 | 2024-07-14 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
4.2 M1.5 M
granite-4.1-8b
Llama-3.1-8B
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Llama-3.1-8B · fp16
19.4 GB / 24 GB
granite-4.1-8b · fp16 @ 128K ctx
40.9 GB / 24 GB