Qwen3-4B vs granite-3.3-2b-instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.
ibm-granite · B · Open weights
Params
2.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
340 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-4B | granite-3.3-2b-instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 4.0 B | 2.5 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | GraniteForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 131,072 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 11,396,683 | 340,490 |
| Downloads all time | 92.7 M | 2.0 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2025-04-09 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
12.6 M329 K
Qwen3-4B
granite-3.3-2b-instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-4B · fp16
10.0 GB / 24 GB
granite-3.3-2b-instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx
12.2 GB / 24 GB