granite-4.1-8b vs T-lite-it-2.1

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
t-tech · B
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
300 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification granite-4.1-8b T-lite-it-2.1
Parameters 8.8 B 8.2 B
Architecture GraniteForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 4,208,265 300,287
Downloads all time 5.0 M 332 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-04-06 2025-12-22

Download trend

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

4.2 M167 K
granite-4.1-8b T-lite-it-2.1

VRAM side by side

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

T-lite-it-2.1 · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
granite-4.1-8b · fp16 @ 128K ctx 40.9 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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