granite-4.1-8b vs Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
unsloth · B
Params
8.0 B
Context
131,072
30d
410 K
llama3.1 licence · conditional
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | granite-4.1-8b | Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.8 B | 8.0 B |
| Architecture | GraniteForCausalLM | LlamaForCausalLM |
| Context length | 131,072 | 131,072 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | llama3.1 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Conditional |
| Languages | — | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 4,208,265 | 409,524 |
| Downloads all time | 5.0 M | 6.3 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-04-06 | 2024-07-23 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
4.2 M355 K
granite-4.1-8b
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx
37.4 GB / 24 GB
granite-4.1-8b · fp16 @ 128K ctx
40.9 GB / 24 GB