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Run granite-4.2-3b on Lium
IBM · Text generation · 3.7B parameters · 7.3 GB BF16 weights · released 2026-08-07
It needs about 9 GB of VRAM. The cheapest setup that runs it is RTX A4500 (20 GB), from $0.16 per hour, billed per second.
Other GPUs that run it
How to run it
Rent the pod above, open a terminal over SSH or Jupyter and serve ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b:
vllm serve ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3bClaude Code and Codex can do all of it through the Lium CLI.
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does granite-4.2-3b need?
About 7.3 GB for the released BF16 weights, so plan on 9 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-4.2-3b?
RTX A4500 (20 GB). On Lium that setup costs from $0.16 per hour, billed per second with no minimum.
For AI agents (CLI install, agent skill, headless signup): llms-full.txt