Run granite-4.1-8b-llmon-preview on Lium

IBM · Text generation · 8.8B parameters · 17.6 GB BF16 weights · released 2026-10-01

It needs about 22 GB of VRAM. The cheapest setup that runs it is RTX 3090 (24 GB), from $0.19 per hour, billed per second.

Rent RTX 3090

Other GPUs that run it

RTX A6000	48 GB	from $0.42 / hour	Rent
A100 80GB PCIe	80 GB	from $0.81 / hour	Rent

How to run it

Rent the pod above, open a terminal over SSH or Jupyter and serve ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-llmon-preview:

vllm serve ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-llmon-preview

Claude Code and Codex can do all of it through the Lium CLI.

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does granite-4.1-8b-llmon-preview need?

About 17.6 GB for the released BF16 weights, so plan on 22 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-4.1-8b-llmon-preview?

RTX 3090 (24 GB). On Lium that setup costs from $0.19 per hour, billed per second with no minimum.

All open models

For AI agents (CLI install, agent skill, headless signup): llms-full.txt