Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct vs granite-4.1-30b

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 17 September 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
32.8 B
Context
32,768
30d
588 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
ibm-granite · B · Open weights
Params
28.9 B
Context
131,072
30d
187 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct granite-4.1-30b
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights
Parameters 32.8 B 28.9 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM GraniteForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 588,474 186,876
Downloads all time 13.7 M 931 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-11-06 2026-04-06
API input price / 1M tokens $0.66 not on OpenRouter
API output price / 1M tokens $1.00 not on OpenRouter
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $1.66 not on OpenRouter
Cached input / 1M tokens — not on OpenRouter
AA Intelligence Index 6.7 not on OpenRouter
AA Coding Index — not on OpenRouter
AA Agentic Index — not on OpenRouter
Max output tokens 29,491 not on OpenRouter
API providers 1 not on OpenRouter
Tool calling No not on OpenRouter
Reasoning mode No not on OpenRouter

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct $1.66

Download trend

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

1.7 M177 K
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct granite-4.1-30b

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct · fp16 77.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
granite-4.1-30b · fp16 @ 128K ctx 133.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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