vs
1:0
overall capability wins (2 ties across 3 scored). Granite 3.1 8B Instruct leads overall.
- Pricing1:2
- Speed0:1
- Specs1:0
Verdict
Granite 4.0 H Micro is ~1.5x cheaper on a blended token basis than Granite 3.1 8B Instruct.
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Granite 3.1 8B Instruct
- $0.08
- Granite 4.0 H Micro
- $0.04
Granite 4.0 H Micro is about 1.7x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
IBM
IBM
Family
Granite
Granite
License
Apache 2.0
Apache 2.0
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
Dec 18, 2024
Oct 2, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
IBM watsonx
IBM watsonx
Modalities
text → text
text → text
Specs
Context window
128K
128K
Max output
8K
8K
Parameters
8B
3B
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.05
$0.02
Output $/1M
$0.10
$0.11
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.06
$0.04
Speed
tok/s
110
180
TTFT (s)
0.15
0.15
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam
—
—
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
—
—
AA-LCR v1.1
—
—
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
—
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
—
—
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,208
—
| Metric | Granite 3.1 8B Instruct | Granite 4.0 H Micro | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | IBM | IBM | — |
| Family | Granite | Granite | — |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Dec 18, 2024 | Oct 2, 2025 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | IBM watsonx | IBM watsonx | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 128K | 128K | tie |
| Max output | 8K | 8K | tie |
| Parameters | 8B | 3B | A +5.00 |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.05 | $0.02 | B +$0.03 |
| Output $/1M | $0.10 | $0.11 | A +$0.01 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.06 | $0.04 | B +$0.02 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 110 | 180 | B +70 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.15 | 0.15 | tie |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | — | — | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | — | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | — | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | — | — | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,208 | — | — |
Granite 3.1 8B Instruct
- Context
- 128K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 8B
- Price
- $0.05 / $0.10
- Speed
- 110 tok/s · 0.15s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Prior-gen IBM Granite 3.1 8B instruct — enterprise RAG and tool-calling baseline on watsonx before Granite 4.
Granite 4.0 H Micro
- Context
- 128K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 3B
- Price
- $0.02 / $0.11
- Speed
- 180 tok/s · 0.15s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Tiny hybrid Granite 4.0 for edge and RAG — ultra-low watsonx list pricing.
Benchmark charts
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