Granite 3.2 8b specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: Granite 3.2 8b
Author: IBM

open weights · top 10 on 0 of 1 · released Feb 17, 2025

Provider: IBM
Release date: Feb 17, 2025; Hugging Face
Parameters: 8.2B total; Hugging Face
Modalities: Text to Text; Hugging Face
License: Apache 2.0; Hugging Face
Hosting: self-host: weights on Hugging Face
Hardware: Estimate: about 16 GB of weights as published (BF16), about 8.2 GB at 8-bit, about 4.1 GB at 4-bit, plus memory for the context; Hugging Face config
Weights: Open weights
Benchmarks: 1 board captured

Rank	Board	Category	Score	Of	Over time
60	BFCLAgents and tools · stale since 2026-04-12 · as “Granite-3.2-8B-Instruct (FC)”	Agents and tools	26.9%	81

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6 versions in this line since Dec 6, 2024, from Pricing, OpenRouter and the boards.

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