vs
0:2
overall capability wins (0 ties across 2 scored). Granite 4.0 Micro leads overall.
- Pricing3:0
- Speed0:1
- Specs0:2
Verdict
Granite 4.0 Micro offers larger context (131K vs 128K); Granite 4.0 Micro allows ~16.0x more max output (131K vs 8K); Granite 3.1 8B Instruct is ~1.8x cheaper on a blended token basis than Granite 4.0 Micro.
- Granite 4.0 Micro offers larger context (131K vs 128K)
- Granite 4.0 Micro allows ~16.0x more max output (131K vs 8K)
- Granite 3.1 8B Instruct is ~1.8x cheaper on a blended token basis than Granite 4.0 Micro
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Granite 3.1 8B Instruct
- $0.08
- Granite 4.0 Micro
- $0.13
Granite 3.1 8B Instruct 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 20, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
IBM watsonx
IBM watsonx
Modalities
text → text
text → text
Specs
Context window
128K
131K
Max output
8K
131K
Parameters
8B
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.05
$0.06
Output $/1M
$0.10
$0.27
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.06
$0.11
Speed
tok/s
110
130
TTFT (s)
0.15
0.15
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
44.7
GPQA Diamond
—
33.6
Humanity's Last Exam
—
5.0
AIME 2025
—
6.0
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
—
9.3
AA-LCR v1.1
—
7.0
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
—
24.8
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
18.0
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
—
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
—
11.9
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 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 20, 2025 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | IBM watsonx | IBM watsonx | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 128K | 131K | B +3K |
| Max output | 8K | 131K | B +123K |
| Parameters | 8B | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.05 | $0.06 | A +$0.01 |
| Output $/1M | $0.10 | $0.27 | A +$0.17 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.06 | $0.11 | A +$0.05 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 110 | 130 | B +20 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.15 | 0.15 | tie |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | 44.7 | — |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 33.6 | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 5.0 | — |
| AIME 2025 | — | 6.0 | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | — | 9.3 | — |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | 7.0 | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | — | 24.8 | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 18.0 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | — | 11.9 | — |
| 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 Micro
- Context
- 131K / 131K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.06 / $0.27
- Speed
- 130 tok/s · 0.15s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Apache 2.0
Ultra-compact Granite 4 hybrid MoE for edge and high-volume watsonx pipelines — among the cheapest hosted enterprise LLMs.
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