Qwen3-4B vs granite-guardian-3.3-8b
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.
ibm-granite · B · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
204 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-4B | granite-guardian-3.3-8b |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 4.0 B | 8.2 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | GraniteForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 131,072 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 11,364,244 | 204,311 |
| Downloads all time | 92.8 M | 287 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2025-06-03 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)
12.6 M204 K
Qwen3-4B
granite-guardian-3.3-8b
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-4B · fp16
10.0 GB / 24 GB
granite-guardian-3.3-8b · fp16 @ 128K ctx
38.1 GB / 24 GB