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Run granite-4.0-h-micro on Lium

IBM · Text generation · 3.2B parameters · 6.4 GB BF16 weights · released 2025-09-16
It needs about 8 GB of VRAM. The cheapest setup that runs it is RTX 5060 Ti (16 GB), from $0.12 per hour, billed per second.

Other GPUs that run it

T416 GBfrom $0.22 / hourRent
RTX A600048 GBfrom $0.40 / hourRent

How to run it

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

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does granite-4.0-h-micro need?

About 6.4 GB for the released BF16 weights, so plan on 8 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-h-micro?

RTX 5060 Ti (16 GB). On Lium that setup costs from $0.12 per hour, billed per second with no minimum.
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