Model Detail
granite-4.2-30b
▲ 16.2%granite-4.2-30b is a large language model with 30B parameters released by ibm-granite. The model is registered under the text-generation pipeline tag on Hugging Face, distributed under the permissive apache-2.0 license.
granite-4.2-30b ships with 30B parameters. Total weight footprint is approximately 29.3 GB, which is the relevant figure when planning local-inference VRAM. The apache-2.0 license is permissive, allowing commercial deployment and derivative work without per-seat fees, though attribution requirements still apply.
Downloads of granite-4.2-30b have moved +16.2% over the past 24 hours, +217.0% over the trailing seven days. That puts the model in active uptrend territory; a sustained move of this size usually reflects a recent release, a viral integration, or a benchmark surprise rather than steady-state demand. These numbers are signal, not guarantee — week-over-week download counts on Hugging Face also reflect mirror traffic, CI scrapes, and one-off benchmarking runs.
granite-4.2-30b is best fit for general-purpose chat and instruction-following workloads. Treat this as a starting matrix rather than a benchmark verdict — the right deployment usually depends on the specific evaluation suite that mirrors your workload.
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