granite-4.1-8b vs Phi-3.5-mini-instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 August 2026.
ibm-granite · A · Open weights
Params
8.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
192 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
microsoft · B · Open weights
Params
3.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
376 K
mit · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | granite-4.1-8b | Phi-3.5-mini-instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.8 B | 3.8 B |
| Architecture | GraniteForCausalLM | Phi3ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 131,072 | 131,072 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 192,200 | 375,768 |
| Downloads all time | 6.1 M | 13.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-04-06 | 2024-08-16 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)
4.3 M192 K
granite-4.1-8b
Phi-3.5-mini-instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Phi-3.5-mini-instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx
18.1 GB / 24 GB
granite-4.1-8b · fp16 @ 128K ctx
40.9 GB / 24 GB