How does granite 4.1 8b rank among AI models?
granite 4.1 8b is a superseded version and is not on the current board as of 22 September 2026. Its archive position, where one exists, is shown on the page; the newer version carries the current rank.
IBM Granite·ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b
granite 4.1 8b is ModelCap archive rank #280 (Measured), from the ModelCap Index as of 22 Sept 2026, 03:10 UTC.
granite 4.1 8b weight access is open weights, from ModelCap classification of published repository metadata as of 22 Sept 2026, 03:10 UTC.
Snapshot facts · download the public dataset · methodology
ModelCap Index · All-versions archive
24.7#280
Measured · 49% support · score interval 18.7–30.7
Evidence as of 13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
Superseded by Granite 4.2 8B. It no longer holds a current-board position; its all-versions archive rank is #280.
OpenRouter endpoint status could not be refreshed. This model is not treated as currently served until a successful observation arrives.
Input
Self-hosted
weights only · no listed API price
Output
Self-hosted
weights only · no listed API price
Context
—
tokens
Providers
0
endpoints
Gateway spend
—
latest · Vercel share
Providers
Uptime measured over the last 30 minutesCurrent provider status is unavailable.
Reported evaluation leads (4)
Not independent measurementStructured rows reported in this exact model repository at the pinned revision below. They are the publisher talking about itself: never measured evidence, never a score input on their own. They remain quarantined until dataset revision, harness, configuration and identity pass ModelCap’s independent admission review.
Other versions (1)
ModelCap Index · All-versions archive
Methodology24.7
Measured · 2 public benchmark observations across 2 boards
All-versions archive
#280
- Public rank basis
- Measured (measured)
- Index support
- 49.4% · moderate
- Index interval
- 18.7–30.7
- Rank posterior
- Not available
- Top 5 / Top 10 probability
- Not available / Not available
- Posterior as of
- Snapshot timestamp unavailable
- Evidence as of
- 13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
- Identity binding
- Exact catalogue product · ibm-granite/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b · aggregates disclosed benchmark configurations · endpoint configuration not claimed · artifact metadata ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b@1504002f650e656a0a3789d99574df12e3e94ed0 (not the evaluation revision)
- Index observations used
- 2
- Qualified Index evidence point
- 24.7
Bayesian Evidence Score · measured evidence input only
BES normalizes admitted public benchmark evidence for measured Index rows. Its legacy score and observables prior do not define the public language rank.
- Observed capability
- 24.7
- Evidence status
- confirmed · 73% mass
- General preference
- 24.6
- Coding
- 25.4
- Agents & tools
- —
- Reasoning
- —
- Evidence breadth
- 92%
- Evidence coverage
- 49%
Market and catalogue signals · secondary, never the language Index rank
- Usage (OpenRouter popularity)
- —
- Liquidity (providers × uptime)
- —
- Open reach (HF downloads)
- 91.0
- Surface (context / tools / modalities)
- 0.0
- Freshness
- 52.6
- · HF 30d downloads 207388
- · Catalogue surface
- · First seen 2026-04-06
These adoption and deployment observations remain context only. They do not change this model's ModelCap Index score or rank.
BES evidence selected · measured input only
- Arena Overall24.6
- Arena Coding25.4
The bounded 0–100 capability score blends each source’s competitive placement with its published achievement, then combines capability families. Evidence breadth adds a modest uncertainty adjustment; price and popularity are not part of benchmark-led rank.
Deployment readiness
Metadata index57.6
partial · 70% metadata coverage
- Artifact reproducibility
- 85.0
- Access & legal clarity
- 100.0
- Deployability
- 8.0
- Evaluation provenance
- 48.7
Missing: artifactReproducibility.base-lineage, deployability.independent-provider-records, deployability.measured-provider-uptime, deployability.published-provider-pricing, deployability.declared-capacity, evaluationProvenance.evaluation-dataset-revisions.
A metadata completeness and deployability index—not a safety certification, quality grade, or production-readiness claim.
Market activity
Venue coverage- Market Gravity
- 16.3
- OpenRouter weekly popularity
- Not listed
Market Gravity uses OpenRouter’s full-catalogue popularity order. Sparse Vercel top-ten observations appear only when published and do not affect the score.
Arena preference
- Status
- Ranked
- Source
- LMArena
- Official rank
- #267 of 402
- Rating
- 1306.0
- 95% confidence interval
- 1296–1316
- Votes
- 4K
- Source published at
- 13 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC
- Category
- overall
- Identity match confidence
- 100%
Market Gravity breakdown
- Usage55%
- 0.0
- Liquidity25%
- 0.0
- Open reach15%
- 91.0
- Freshness5%
- 52.6
OpenRouter weekly popularity across the full model catalogue.
Independent providers versus the model's open or closed cohort, weighted by uptime.
Hugging Face 30-day downloads for open models; neutral for closed models.
Time since first public availability, on a six-month half-life.
Specification
- Context window
- — tokens
- Max output
- —
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Tokenizer
- —
- Cached input tokens
- Not offered
- First seen on OpenRouter
- 6 Apr 2026
Capabilities
- Not supported: Reasoning
- Not supported: Tool use
- Not supported: Structured output
- Not supported: Response format
- Not supported: Moderated
Weights & access
Open weights. Downloadable weights are published under an OSI or free-culture license in the current repository metadata. This describes weight availability, not whether the full training stack qualifies as Open Source AI.
- Access
- Open weights
- Licence
- apache-2.0
- Pinned revision
- 1504002f650e
- Parameters
- 8.8B
- Architecture
- GraniteForCausalLM
- Model type
- granite
- Hugging Face downloads (30d)
- 207K
- Downloads (all time)
- 6.1M
- Likes
- 255
- Repository
- ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b
- Repository updated
- 4 May 2026, 17:36 UTC
Benchmark leaderboards featuring granite 4.1 8b
All leaderboardsgranite 4.1 8b: common questions
How much does granite 4.1 8b cost per 1M tokens?
No live API price is listed for granite 4.1 8b in the current snapshot as of 22 September 2026 because the latest endpoint refresh was unavailable. ModelCap shows a price only when a provider currently lists one.
Is granite 4.1 8b open-weight?
Open weights (apache-2.0). Downloadable weights are published under an OSI or free-culture license in the current repository metadata. This describes weight availability, not whether the full training stack qualifies as Open Source AI. The repository is ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b on Hugging Face.
Which benchmarks has granite 4.1 8b been evaluated on?
granite 4.1 8b has published results on 3 public boards tracked by ModelCap as of 22 September 2026: Arena coding 1354 (#253 of 397), AA τ²-Bench Telecom 27.8% (#288 of 436) and AA Humanity's Last Exam 3.8% (#550 of 615). Each board page ranks every tracked model on that benchmark; the ModelCap Index combines them with published uncertainty.
When was granite 4.1 8b released?
granite 4.1 8b first appeared in the catalogue on 6 Apr 2026. It has since been superseded by Granite 4.2 8B. Rank and price movements since then are recorded on the site's changes feed.