Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct vs granite-4.1-3b
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
ibm-granite · B · Open weights
Params
3.4 B
Context
131,072
30d
524 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 | 2,587,484 | 524,488 |
| Downloads all time | 125.6 M | 2.3 M |
| 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 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
7.6 M185 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
granite-4.1-3b · fp16 @ 128K ctx
16.1 GB / 24 GB