granite-4.1-8b vs saiga_llama3_8b

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
IlyaGusev · B
Params
8.0 B
Context
8,192
30d
423 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification granite-4.1-8b saiga_llama3_8b
Parameters 8.8 B 8.0 B
Architecture GraniteForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 8,192
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 4,208,265 423,303
Downloads all time 5.0 M 4.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-04-06 2024-04-18

Download trend

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

4.2 M412 K
granite-4.1-8b saiga_llama3_8b

VRAM side by side

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

saiga_llama3_8b · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
granite-4.1-8b · fp16 @ 128K ctx 40.9 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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