granite-4.1-8b vs Olmo-3-7B-Instruct

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
allenai · B
Params
7.3 B
Context
65,536
30d
434 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification granite-4.1-8b Olmo-3-7B-Instruct
Parameters 8.8 B 7.3 B
Architecture GraniteForCausalLM Olmo3ForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 65,536
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 4,208,265 433,831
Downloads all time 5.0 M 2.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-04-06 2025-11-19

Download trend

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

4.2 M280 K
granite-4.1-8b Olmo-3-7B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Olmo-3-7B-Instruct · fp16 17.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
granite-4.1-8b · fp16 @ 128K ctx 40.9 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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