granite-4.1-8b vs Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-AWQ-4bit
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 26 August 2026.
cyankiwi · B
Params
5.3 B
Context
262,144
30d
204 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | granite-4.1-8b | Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-AWQ-4bit |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.8 B | 5.3 B |
| Architecture | GraniteForCausalLM | Qwen3MoeForCausalLM |
| Context length | 131,072 | 262,144 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 217,938 | 204,079 |
| Downloads all time | 6.1 M | 3.0 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-04-06 | 2025-07-29 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
4.3 M204 K
granite-4.1-8b
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-AWQ-4bit
A overtook B on 17 Sep
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
granite-4.1-8b · fp16 @ 128K ctx
40.9 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-AWQ-4bit · fp16 @ 256K ctx
45.9 GB / 24 GB