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Run granite-4.0-h-tiny on Lium

IBM · Text generation · 6.9B parameters · 13.9 GB BF16 weights · released 2025-09-16
It needs about 17 GB of VRAM. The cheapest setup that runs it is RTX 3090 (24 GB), from $0.18 per hour, billed per second.

Other GPUs that run it

RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell24 GBfrom $0.27 / hourRent
H100 PCIe80 GBfrom $1.40 / hourRent

How to run it

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

Frequently asked questions

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

About 13.9 GB for the released BF16 weights, so plan on 17 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-tiny?

RTX 3090 (24 GB). On Lium that setup costs from $0.18 per hour, billed per second with no minimum.
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