granite-4.1-8b vs Phi-mini-MoE-instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | granite-4.1-8b | Phi-mini-MoE-instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.8 B | 7.7 B |
| Architecture | GraniteForCausalLM | PhiMoEForCausalLM |
| Context length | 131,072 | 4,096 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 4,208,265 | 189,297 |
| Downloads all time | 5.0 M | 1.2 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-04-06 | 2025-06-23 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
4.2 M178 K
granite-4.1-8b
Phi-mini-MoE-instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Phi-mini-MoE-instruct · fp16
18.5 GB / 24 GB
granite-4.1-8b · fp16 @ 128K ctx
40.9 GB / 24 GB