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Run granite-4.0-350m on Lium

IBM · Text generation · 0.4B parameters · 0.7 GB BF16 weights · released 2025-10-07
It needs about 1 GB of VRAM. The cheapest setup that runs it is RTX 3090 (24 GB), from $0.16 per hour, billed per second.

Other GPUs that run it

T416 GBfrom $0.22 / hourRent
RTX A600048 GBfrom $0.42 / hourRent

How to run it

Rent the pod above, open a terminal over SSH or Jupyter and serve ibm-granite/granite-4.0-350m:
vllm serve ibm-granite/granite-4.0-350m
Claude Code and Codex can do all of it through the Lium CLI.

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does granite-4.0-350m need?

About 0.7 GB for the released BF16 weights, so plan on 1 GB with room for activations and KV cache at a short context. Longer contexts and bigger batches need more.

What GPU should I rent to run granite-4.0-350m?

RTX 3090 (24 GB). On Lium that setup costs from $0.16 per hour, billed per second with no minimum.
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