Qwen3-4B vs Granite-4.2-3B-BE-GGUF

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
4.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
4.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
taronaeo · B · Open weights
Params
3.0 B
Context
—
30d
144 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-4B Granite-4.2-3B-BE-GGUF
Parameters 4.0 B 3.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM —
Context length 40,960 —
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 12
Downloads 30d 4,013,632 143,923
Downloads all time 94.5 M 144 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-10-18

Download trend

106 days of snapshots recorded — chart in 0 days.

94.5 M
Qwen3-4B · all-time downloads
144 K
Granite-4.2-3B-BE-GGUF · all-time downloads

VRAM side by side

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

Granite-4.2-3B-BE-GGUF · Q4_0 3.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-4B · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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