Title: Granite 3.3 2B Instruct vs Granite 3.3 8B Instruct %E2%80%94 LLM EU
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# Granite 3.3 2B Instruct vs Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Put two to four models side by side on the fields that decide a deployment: context, price, region, license, languages, hosting, and what is verified.

Where two models differ, this table shows the difference and stops. LLM EU publishes no winner badge without a documented score for that task, and a missing figure stays missing instead of becoming a zero.

## When to use it

### [Granite 3.3 2B Instruct](/en/models/granite-3-3-2b-instruct/)

#### Strengths

- open weights are published on Hugging Face and can be downloaded without a vendor agreement
- Apache-2.0 licence, so commercial self-hosting is permitted without a separate agreement
- at 2.5B parameters it fits on a single accelerator
- instruction-tuned checkpoint with a chat template in the repository

#### Limits

- catalogue only %E2%80%94 LLM EU does not run this model, and nothing on this card implies an LLM EU endpoint
- no evaluation has been run by LLM EU
- the published configuration records no context window, so the card carries none
- at 2.5B parameters, the weights fit on a single modest accelerator

#### Tasks

[Multilingual support](/en/tasks/multilingual-support/), [Low cost](/en/tasks/cheap/), [Summarisation](/en/tasks/summarization/)

### [Granite 3.3 8B Instruct](/en/models/granite-3-3-8b-instruct/)

#### Strengths

- open weights are published on Hugging Face and can be downloaded without a vendor agreement
- Apache-2.0 licence, so commercial self-hosting is permitted without a separate agreement
- at 8.2B parameters it fits on a single accelerator
- instruction-tuned checkpoint with a chat template in the repository

#### Limits

- catalogue only %E2%80%94 LLM EU does not run this model, and nothing on this card implies an LLM EU endpoint
- no evaluation has been run by LLM EU
- the published configuration records no context window, so the card carries none
- at 8.2B parameters, the weights fit on a single modest accelerator

#### Tasks

[Multilingual support](/en/tasks/multilingual-support/), [Retrieval (RAG)](/en/tasks/rag/), [Summarisation](/en/tasks/summarization/)

**Tasks:** [Multilingual support](/en/tasks/multilingual-support/), [Summarisation](/en/tasks/summarization/)

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