Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct vs granite-4.1-3b

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
3.1 B
Context
32,768
30d
6.0 M
ibm-granite · B
Params
3.4 B
Context
131,072
30d
329 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct granite-4.1-3b
Parameters 3.1 B 3.4 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM GraniteForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 131,072
Licence other apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 5,952,246 328,863
Downloads all time 110.0 M 888 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2026-04-06

Download trend

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

6.0 M329 K
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct granite-4.1-3b

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct · fp16 7.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
granite-4.1-3b · fp16 @ 128K ctx 16.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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