granite-4.1-8b vs Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3-AWQ

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 30 August 2026.

ibm-granite · A · Open weights
Params
8.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
192 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
solidrust · B · Open weights
Params
7.3 B
Context
32,768
30d
208 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification granite-4.1-8b Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3-AWQ
Parameters 8.8 B 7.3 B
Architecture GraniteForCausalLM MistralForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 192,200 207,516
Downloads all time 6.1 M 1.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-04-06 2024-05-23

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

4.2 M192 K
granite-4.1-8b Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3-AWQ

VRAM side by side

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

Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3-AWQ · fp16 6.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
granite-4.1-8b · fp16 @ 128K ctx 40.9 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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