Qwen3-32B vs granite-4.1-30b

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 20 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
32.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
5.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
ibm-granite · B
Params
28.9 B
Context
131,072
30d
702 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-32B granite-4.1-30b
Parameters 32.8 B 28.9 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM GraniteForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 5,035,207 701,510
Downloads all time 57.4 M 849 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-04-06

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 55 days (28 Jul – 20 Sep)

10.1 M177 K
Qwen3-32B granite-4.1-30b

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-4.1-30b · fp16 @ 128K ctx 133.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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