Granite 3 models
12 Granite 3 models on Hugging Face, from 1.3B to 8.6B parameters. At the precision each one is published in, the smallest needs about 3.0 GB of VRAM (granite-3.0-1b-a400m-instruct, cheapest live fit: RTX 5060 Ti) and the largest about 19.3 GB (granite-speech-3.3-8b, cheapest live fit: RTX A5000). The cheapest way to run granite-3.0-1b-a400m-instruct is $0.110/hr.
Granite 3 models
| Model | Parameters | Published as | VRAM needed | Live GPU fit | Est. $/hr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| granite-3.0-1b-a400m-instruct | 1.3B | BF16 | 3.0 GB | RTX 5060 Ti | $0.110/hr |
| granite-3.0-1b-a400m-base | 1.4B | F32 | 6.2 GB | V100 | $0.088/hr |
| granite-3.1-2b-instruct | 2.5B | BF16 | 5.7 GB | RTX 5060 Ti | $0.110/hr |
| granite-3.3-2b-instruct | 2.5B | BF16 | 5.7 GB | RTX 5060 Ti | $0.110/hr |
| granite-speech-3.3-2b | 3.0B | BF16 | 6.7 GB | RTX 5060 Ti | $0.110/hr |
| granite-3.0-8b-instruct | 8.2B | BF16 | 18.3 GB | RTX A5000 | $0.176/hr |
| granite-3.1-8b-instruct | 8.2B | BF16 | 18.3 GB | RTX A5000 | $0.176/hr |
| granite-3.2-8b-instruct | 8.2B | BF16 | 18.3 GB | RTX A5000 | $0.176/hr |
| granite-3.3-8b-instruct | 8.2B | BF16 | 18.3 GB | RTX A5000 | $0.176/hr |
| granite-guardian-3.3-8b | 8.2B | BF16 | 18.3 GB | RTX A5000 | $0.176/hr |
| granite-speech-3.2-8b | 8.5B | BF16 | 19.0 GB | RTX A5000 | $0.176/hr |
| granite-speech-3.3-8b | 8.6B | BF16 | 19.3 GB | RTX A5000 | $0.176/hr |
VRAM is for the precision the model is published in, with the same overhead and an 8,192-token context assumed on every page; see the methodology. The fit shown is the lowest-priced single GPU type that holds the model at that precision, or the lowest-priced multi-GPU set (up to 8) when none does.
