granite-4.1-8b vs Qwen3-32B-AWQ

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

ibm-granite · A · Open weights
Params
8.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
192 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
32.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
735 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification granite-4.1-8b Qwen3-32B-AWQ
Parameters 8.8 B 32.8 B
Architecture GraniteForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 192,200 734,641
Downloads all time 6.1 M 10.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-04-06 2025-05-01

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 88 days (28 Jul – 23 Oct)

4.3 M192 K
granite-4.1-8b Qwen3-32B-AWQ

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-32B-AWQ · fp16 26.7 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
granite-4.1-8b · fp16 @ 128K ctx 40.9 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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