Qwen3-1.7B vs granite-4.0-h-micro

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
2.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
4.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
ibm-granite · B · Open weights
Params
3.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
9 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-1.7B granite-4.0-h-micro
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 2.0 B 3.2 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM GraniteMoeHybridForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 4,136,449 9,011
Downloads all time 66.7 M 254 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-09-16
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.017
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.11
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $0.13
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter —
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter 5.1
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter —
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 117,900
API providers not on OpenRouter 1
Tool calling not on OpenRouter No
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter No

API cost

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

granite-4.0-h-micro $0.13

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

7.8 M9 K
Qwen3-1.7B granite-4.0-h-micro

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-1.7B · fp16 5.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
granite-4.0-h-micro · fp16 @ 128K ctx 15.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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