Qwen3-32B vs granite-4.0-h-small

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

Qwen · A
Params
32.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
8.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
ibm-granite · B
Params
32.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
160 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-32B granite-4.0-h-small
Parameters 32.8 B 32.2 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM GraniteMoeHybridForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 8,346,113 159,832
Downloads all time 49.9 M 1.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-09-16

Download trend

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

10.1 M160 K
Qwen3-32B granite-4.0-h-small

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-32B · fp16 77.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
granite-4.0-h-small · fp16 @ 128K ctx 148.7 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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