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Red Hat AI validated models

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Learn about the validated models that you can inference serve with Red Hat AI.

Chapter 1. About Red Hat AI validated models
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Red Hat AI validated models have been tested and verified to work correctly across supported hardware and product configurations. These models are available as Hugging Face downloads, as OCI artifact images, and as modelcar container images. Platform-specific validated models are also available for IBM Spyre on IBM Power and IBM Z systems.

Note

If you are using AI Inference Server as part of a RHEL AI deployment, use OCI artifact images.

If you are using AI Inference Server as part of a OpenShift AI deployment, use ModelCar images.

Red Hat uses GuideLLM for performance benchmarking and Language Model Evaluation Harness for accuracy evaluations.

Explore the Red Hat AI validated models collections on Hugging Face.

Important

AMD GPUs support FP8 (W8A8) and GGUF quantization variant models only. For more information, see Supported hardware.

The following models, available from RedHat AI on Hugging Face, are validated for use with Red Hat AI Inference Server.

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Table 2.1. Red Hat AI validated models - October 2025 collection
ModelQuantized variantsHugging Face model cardValidated on

gpt-oss-120b

None

  • RHAIIS 3.2.2
  • RHOAI 2.25

gpt-oss-20b

None

  • RHAIIS 3.2.2
  • RHOAI 2.25

NVIDIA-Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2

INT4, FP8

  • RHAIIS 3.2.2
  • RHOAI 2.25

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct

FP8

  • RHAIIS 3.2.2
  • RHOAI 2.25

Voxtral-Mini-3B-2507

FP8

  • RHAIIS 3.2.2
  • RHOAI 2.25

whisper-large-v3-turbo

INT4

  • RHAIIS 3.2.2
  • RHOAI 2.25

The following models, available from RedHat AI on Hugging Face, are validated for use with Red Hat AI Inference Server.

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Table 3.1. Red Hat AI validated models - September 2025 collection
ModelQuantized variantsHugging Face model cardValidated on

DeepSeek-R1-0528

INT4

  • RHAIIS 3.2.1
  • RHOAI 2.24

gemma-3n-E4B-it

FP8

  • RHAIIS 3.2.1
  • RHOAI 2.24

Kimi-K2-Instruct

INT4

  • RHAIIS 3.2.1
  • RHOAI 2.24

Qwen3-8B

FP8

  • RHAIIS 3.2.1
  • RHOAI 2.24

The following models, available from RedHat AI on Hugging Face, are validated for use with Red Hat AI Inference Server.

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Table 4.1. Red Hat AI validated models - May 2025 collection
ModelQuantized variantsHugging Face model cardValidated on

gemma-2-9b-it

FP8

  • RHAIIS 3.0
  • RHELAI 1.5
  • RHOAI 2.20

granite-3.1-8b-base

INT4

  • RHAIIS 3.0
  • RHELAI 1.5
  • RHOAI 2.20

granite-3.1-8b-instruct

INT4, INT8, FP8

  • RHAIIS 3.0
  • RHELAI 1.5
  • RHOAI 2.20

Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

None

  • RHAIIS 3.0
  • RHELAI 1.5
  • RHOAI 2.20

Llama-3.1-Nemotron-70B-Instruct-HF

FP8

  • RHAIIS 3.0
  • RHELAI 1.5
  • RHOAI 2.20

Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct

INT4, INT8, FP8

  • RHAIIS 3.0
  • RHELAI 1.5
  • RHOAI 2.20

Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct

FP8

  • RHAIIS 3.0
  • RHELAI 1.5
  • RHOAI 2.20

Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct

INT4, FP8

  • RHAIIS 3.0
  • RHELAI 1.5
  • RHOAI 2.20

Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

INT4, INT8, FP8

  • RHAIIS 3.0
  • RHELAI 1.5
  • RHOAI 2.20

Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501

INT4, INT8, FP8

  • RHAIIS 3.0
  • RHELAI 1.5
  • RHOAI 2.20

Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503

INT4, INT8, FP8

  • RHAIIS 3.0
  • RHELAI 1.5
  • RHOAI 2.20

Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1

None

  • RHAIIS 3.0
  • RHELAI 1.5
  • RHOAI 2.20

phi-4

INT4, INT8, FP8

  • RHAIIS 3.0
  • RHELAI 1.5
  • RHOAI 2.20

Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct

INT4, INT8, FP8

  • RHAIIS 3.0
  • RHELAI 1.5
  • RHOAI 2.20

The following table lists validated OCI artifact model container images available from the Red Hat container registry, including baseline and quantized variants for each supported model.

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Table 5.1. Validated OCI artifact model container images
ModelQuantized variantsModelCar images

llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct

INT4, FP8

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct:1.5
  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct-quantized-w4a16:1.5
  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct-fp8-dynamic:1.5

llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct

FP8

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct:1.5
  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct-fp8:1.5

mistral-small-3-1-24b-instruct-2503

INT4, INT8, FP8

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/mistral-small-3-1-24b-instruct-2503:1.5
  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/mistral-small-3-1-24b-instruct-2503-quantized-w4a16:1.5
  • INT8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/mistral-small-3-1-24b-instruct-2503-quantized-w8a8:1.5
  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/mistral-small-3-1-24b-instruct-2503-fp8-dynamic:1.5

llama-3-3-70b-instruct

INT4, INT8, FP8

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/llama-3-3-70b-instruct:1.5
  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/llama-3-3-70b-instruct-quantized-w4a16:1.5
  • INT8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/llama-3-3-70b-instruct-quantized-w8a8:1.5
  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/llama-3-3-70b-instruct-fp8-dynamic:1.5

llama-3-1-8b-instruct

INT4, INT8, FP8

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/llama-3-1-8b-instruct:1.5
  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/llama-3-1-8b-instruct-quantized-w4a16:1.5
  • INT8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/llama-3-1-8b-instruct-quantized-w8a8:1.5
  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/llama-3-1-8b-instruct-fp8-dynamic:1.5

granite-3-1-8b-instruct

INT4, INT8, FP8

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/granite-3-1-8b-instruct:1.5
  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/granite-3-1-8b-instruct-quantized-w4a16:1.5
  • INT8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/granite-3-1-8b-instruct-quantized-w8a8:1.5
  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/granite-3-1-8b-instruct-fp8-dynamic:1.5

phi-4

INT4, INT8, FP8

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/phi-4:1.5
  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/phi-4-quantized-w4a16:1.5
  • INT8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/phi-4-quantized-w8a8:1.5
  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/phi-4-fp8-dynamic:1.5

qwen2-5-7b-instruct

INT4, INT8, FP8

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/qwen2-5-7b-instruct:1.5
  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/qwen2-5-7b-instruct-quantized-w4a16:1.5
  • INT8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/qwen2-5-7b-instruct-quantized-w8a8:1.5
  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/qwen2-5-7b-instruct-fp8-dynamic:1.5

mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501

INT4, INT8, FP8

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501:1.5
  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501-quantized-w4a16:1.5
  • INT8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501-quantized-w8a8:1.5
  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501-fp8-dynamic:1.5

mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v0-1

None

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v0-1:1.4

granite-3-1-8b-base

INT4 (baseline currently unavailable)

  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/granite-3-1-8b-base-quantized-w4a16:1.5

granite-3.1-8b-starter-v2

None

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/granite-3.1-8b-starter-v2:1.5

llama-3-1-nemotron-70b-instruct-hf

FP8

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/llama-3-1-nemotron-70b-instruct-hf:1.5
  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/llama-3-1-nemotron-70b-instruct-hf-fp8-dynamic:1.5

gemma-2-9b-it

FP8

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/gemma-2-9b-it:1.5
  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/gemma-2-9b-it-fp8:1.5

deepseek-r1-0528

INT4 (baseline currently unavailable)

  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/deepseek-r1-0528-quantized-w4a16:1.5

qwen3-8b

FP8 (baseline currently unavailable)

  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/qwen3-8b-fp8-dynamic:1.5

kimi-k2-instruct

INT4 (baseline currently unavailable)

  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/kimi-k2-instruct-quantized-w4a16:1.5

gemma-3n-e4b-it

FP8 (baseline currently unavailable)

  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/gemma-3n-e4b-it-fp8-dynamic:1.5

gpt-oss-120b

None

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/gpt-oss-120b:1.5

gpt-oss-20b

None

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/gpt-oss-20b:1.5

qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct

FP8 (baseline currently unavailable)

  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-fp8:1.5

whisper-large-v3-turbo

INT4 (baseline currently unavailable)

  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/whisper-large-v3-turbo-quantized-w4a16:1.5

voxtral-mini-3b-2507

FP8 (baseline currently unavailable)

  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/voxtral-mini-3b-2507-fp8-dynamic:1.5

nvidia-nemotron-nano-9b-v2

FP8 (baseline currently unavailable)

  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/nvidia-nemotron-nano-9b-v2-fp8-dynamic:1.5

Chapter 6. ModelCar container images
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The following table lists validated ModelCar container images available from the Red Hat container registry, including baseline and quantized variants for each supported model.

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Table 6.1. ModelCar container images
ModelQuantized variantsModelCar images

llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct

INT4, FP8

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct:1.5
  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct-quantized-w4a16:1.5
  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct-fp8-dynamic:1.5

llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct

FP8

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct:1.5
  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct-fp8:1.5

mistral-small-3-1-24b-instruct-2503

INT4, INT8, FP8

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-mistral-small-3-1-24b-instruct-2503:1.5
  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-mistral-small-3-1-24b-instruct-2503-quantized-w4a16:1.5
  • INT8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-mistral-small-3-1-24b-instruct-2503-quantized-w8a8:1.5
  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-mistral-small-3-1-24b-instruct-2503-fp8-dynamic:1.5

llama-3-3-70b-instruct

INT4, INT8, FP8

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-llama-3-3-70b-instruct:1.5
  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-llama-3-3-70b-instruct-quantized-w4a16:1.5
  • INT8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-llama-3-3-70b-instruct-quantized-w8a8:1.5
  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-llama-3-3-70b-instruct-fp8-dynamic:1.5

llama-3-1-8b-instruct

INT4, INT8, FP8

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-llama-3-1-8b-instruct:1.5
  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-llama-3-1-8b-instruct-quantized-w4a16:1.5
  • INT8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-llama-3-1-8b-instruct-quantized-w8a8:1.5
  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-llama-3-1-8b-instruct-fp8-dynamic:1.5

granite-3-1-8b-instruct

INT4, INT8, FP8

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-granite-3-1-8b-instruct:1.5
  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-granite-3-1-8b-instruct-quantized-w4a16:1.5
  • INT8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-granite-3-1-8b-instruct-quantized-w8a8:1.5
  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-granite-3-1-8b-instruct-fp8-dynamic:1.5

phi-4

INT4, INT8, FP8

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-phi-4:1.5
  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-phi-4-quantized-w4a16:1.5
  • INT8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-phi-4-quantized-w8a8:1.5
  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-phi-4-fp8-dynamic:1.5

qwen2-5-7b-instruct

INT4, INT8, FP8

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-qwen2-5-7b-instruct:1.5
  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-qwen2-5-7b-instruct-quantized-w4a16:1.5
  • INT8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-qwen2-5-7b-instruct-quantized-w8a8:1.5
  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-qwen2-5-7b-instruct-fp8-dynamic:1.5

mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501

INT4, INT8, FP8

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501:1.5
  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501-quantized-w4a16:1.5
  • INT8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501-quantized-w8a8:1.5
  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-mistral-small-24b-instruct-2501-fp8-dynamic:1.5

mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v0-1

None

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v0-1:1.4

granite-3-1-8b-base

INT4 (baseline currently unavailable)

  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-granite-3-1-8b-base-quantized-w4a16:1.5

granite-3-1-8b-starter-v2

None

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-granite-3-1-8b-starter-v2:1.5

llama-3-1-nemotron-70b-instruct-hf

FP8

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-llama-3-1-nemotron-70b-instruct-hf:1.5
  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-llama-3-1-nemotron-70b-instruct-hf-fp8-dynamic:1.5

gemma-2-9b-it

FP8

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-gemma-2-9b-it:1.5
  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-gemma-2-9b-it-fp8:1.5

deepseek-r1-0528

INT4 (baseline currently unavailable)

  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-deepseek-r1-0528-quantized-w4a16:1.5

qwen3-8b

FP8 (baseline currently unavailable)

  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-qwen3-8b-fp8-dynamic:1.5

kimi-k2-instruct

INT4 (baseline currently unavailable)

  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-kimi-k2-instruct-quantized-w4a16:1.5

gemma-3n-e4b-it

FP8 (baseline currently unavailable)

  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-gemma-3n-e4b-it-fp8-dynamic:1.5

gpt-oss-120b

None

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-gpt-oss-120b:1.5

gpt-oss-20b

None

  • Baseline: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-gpt-oss-20b:1.5

qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct

FP8 (baseline currently unavailable)

  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-fp8:1.5

whisper-large-v3-turbo

INT4 (baseline currently unavailable)

  • INT4: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-whisper-large-v3-turbo-quantized-w4a16:1.5

voxtral-mini-3b-2507

FP8 (baseline currently unavailable)

  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-voxtral-mini-3b-2507-fp8-dynamic:1.5

nvidia-nemotron-nano-9b-v2

FP8 (baseline currently unavailable)

  • FP8: registry.redhat.io/rhelai1/modelcar-nvidia-nemotron-nano-9b-v2-fp8-dynamic:1.5

The following large language models are supported for IBM Power systems with IBM Spyre AI accelerators.

Note

IBM Spyre AI accelerator cards support FP16 format model weights only. For compatible models, the Red Hat AI Inference Server inference engine automatically converts weights to FP16 at startup. No additional configuration is needed.

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Table 7.1. IBM Granite models for use with IBM Spyre AI accelerators
ModelHugging Face model card

granite-3.3-8b-instruct

ibm-granite/granite-3.3-8b-instruct

granite-embedding-125m-english

ibm-granite/granite-embedding-125m-english

granite-embedding-278m-multilingual

ibm-granite/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual

Important

Pre-built IBM Granite models run with the specific Python packages that are included in the Red Hat AI Inference Server Spyre container image. The models are tied to fixed configurations for Spyre card count, batch size, and input/output context sizes.

Updating or replacing Python packages in the Red Hat AI Inference Server Spyre container image is not supported.

The following large language models are supported for IBM Z systems with IBM Spyre AI accelerators.

Note

IBM Spyre AI accelerator cards support FP16 format model weights only. For compatible models, the Red Hat AI Inference Server inference engine automatically converts weights to FP16 at startup. No additional configuration is needed.

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Table 8.1. Decoder models for use with IBM Spyre AI accelerators
ModelHugging Face model card

granite-3.3-8b-instruct

ibm-granite/granite-3.3-8b-instruct

Important

Pre-built IBM Granite models run with the specific Python packages that are included in the Red Hat AI Inference Server Spyre container image. The models are tied to fixed configurations for Spyre card count, batch size, and input/output context sizes.

Updating or replacing Python packages in the Red Hat AI Inference Server Spyre container image is not supported.

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