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granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4: Specs, GPU requirements, hosting & deployment

granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4 is a recent General release in the IBM Granite family, certified from its immutable official source revision.

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Licenseapache-2.0
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Architecture, strengths and use cases

granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4 is an official self-hostable IBM release in the IBM Granite General track. It uses The manufacturer has not published this information., carries The manufacturer has not published this information., supports a verified context window of 0 tokens, and exposes only source-certified checkpoints and runtime combinations. Its release, license and deployment facts are tied to the official repository revision rather than inferred from the family name.

granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4 uses The manufacturer has not published this information. with The manufacturer has not published this information.. The stored architecture profile records layers, hidden width , attention heads and a 0 token context ceiling where the official configuration publishes those fields.

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Official checkpoint and pipeline evidence
Official MXFP4 checkpoint coverage
Private LLM inference
Agentic workflows
Long-context document processing

Certified checkpoints and quantizations

Only exact, source-certified variants attached to this release are shown.

Recommended hardware

Use only the listed certified runtime configuration with the exact checkpoint precision. The recommendation engine checks weight memory, KV cache, runtime overhead, safety headroom, GPU architecture and topology before ranking rentable and reference hardware.

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The official license permits commercial use; its obligations still apply.

License and self-hosting considerations

The full 0B resident weight set must fit across the selected GPUs. Context and concurrency add KV-cache memory; MoE active parameters do not replace resident-weight memory.

granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4 is published under apache-2.0. The release-scoped official license link and verification date are retained with the catalogue record.

Commercial Use Allowed. The official license permits commercial use; its obligations still apply.

Alternatives and sibling variants

granite-4.2-3b, granite-4.2-3b-GGUF, granite-4.2-3b-nvfp4, granite-4.2-3b-fp8, granite-4.1-30b-fp8, granite-4.1-30b-GGUF, Granite 4.2 30B, Granite 4.2 8B, Granite 4.2 3B

Release timeline

ibm/granite/granite-42-3b-mxfp4

Source details

Official source

Source revision: d523d0dbb104704c5418a46a1b77d8586f5dd7e866b607c11584366178f689fc

Frequently asked questions

How much VRAM does granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4 require?

The exact estimate depends on checkpoint precision, context and concurrency; the page recommendation uses the certified memory engine and compatible runtime configurations.

Which runtimes support granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4?

No runtime is presented as supported until upstream evidence is verified.

Can granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4 be used commercially?

The stored commercial classification is Commercial Use Allowed. Consult the official apache-2.0 terms for the final obligations.

Official references

Last verified: 2026-09-03