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Bolmo 7B vs granite 3.3 8b instruct

Bolmo 7B (Allen Institute) and granite 3.3 8b instruct (IBM Granite) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.

Snapshot as of 22 September 2026

As of 22 September 2026, granite 3.3 8b instruct holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#221 vs #222).

Which should you choose?

Choose Bolmo 7B if…

  • you want the more recently listed model — Bolmo 7B was listed 13 December 2025, granite 3.3 8b instruct 9 April 2025.

Choose granite 3.3 8b instruct if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #221 against #222 (8.7 vs 8.6 points).

Bolmo 7B vs granite 3.3 8b instruct: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of Bolmo 7B and granite 3.3 8b instruct
FieldBolmo 7BAllen Institutegranite 3.3 8b instructIBM Granite
ModelCap Index position#222#221
Index score8.68.7
EvidenceInheritedEstimated
Input price / 1M tokensUnlistedUnlisted
Output price / 1M tokensUnlistedUnlisted
Context window— tokens— tokens
Max output tokens——
API providers listed00
Weight accessOpen weightsOpen weights
Input modalitiesTextText
First listed13 December 20259 April 2025
PublisherAllen InstituteIBM Granite

Evidence: finetune of allenai/Olmo-3-1025-7B · finetune (100%) · publisher-corpus-prior over 203 held-out anchors (8%); opens above measured predecessor ibm-granite/granite-3.1-8b-instruct on same-family ordering evidence (30%); launch card against 5 resolved peers on 5 rows (62%); exceeds every named peer on 2 of 5 rows; optimism haircut 1.61 from cross-lab-probe; shrunk 0.8 up toward the measured corpus. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: Bolmo 7B vs granite 3.3 8b instruct

Public benchmark boards where Bolmo 7B or granite 3.3 8b instruct has a published result
BoardBolmo 7Bgranite 3.3 8b instructLeads
AA τ²-Bench TelecomArtificial Analysis—10.5%tau2:telecom:dual-control:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="Granite 3.3 8B (Non-reasoning)":reasoning=falseOnly one result
AA Humanity's Last ExamArtificial Analysis—4.2%hle:may-2025:text-only-2158:no-tools:pass-at-1:source-model="Granite 3.3 8B (Non-reasoning)":reasoning=falseOnly one result

Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.

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Bolmo 7B vs granite 3.3 8b instruct: common questions

Is Bolmo 7B better than granite 3.3 8b instruct?

granite 3.3 8b instruct ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 22 September 2026: #221 against #222. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.

Is Bolmo 7B cheaper than granite 3.3 8b instruct?

At least one of the two has no listed API price on ModelCap right now, so no price comparison is made.

Which has the bigger context window, Bolmo 7B or granite 3.3 8b instruct?

Both publish a —-token context window.

Which is better for coding, Bolmo 7B or granite 3.3 8b instruct?

The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.

Are Bolmo 7B and granite 3.3 8b instruct open-weight models?

Bolmo 7B: Open weights. granite 3.3 8b instruct: Open weights. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.

Where can I run Bolmo 7B and granite 3.3 8b instruct?

ModelCap currently lists 0 API providers for Bolmo 7B and 0 for granite 3.3 8b instruct, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.

How current is this Bolmo 7B vs granite 3.3 8b instruct comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 22 September 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.

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