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IBM Granite

11 across 1 category board · 37 without a live endpoint · 37 equivalent routes · 18 superseded · ibm.com/granite

Language ModelCap Index

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Language rankModelGravityContextInput tokensOutput tokensReleased
#150granite 4.2 30bOpen weights16.5131K$0.16$0.65last month
#164granite 4.2 3bOpen weights16.9131K$0.03$0.12last month
#165Granite 4.2 8BOpen weights28.4131K$0.06$0.2521 days ago
#182granite guardian 4.1 8bOpen weights14.3—FreeFree5 months ago
#220granite 3.3 2b instructOpen weights13.5—FreeFreelast year
#221granite 3.3 8b instructOpen weights13.6—FreeFreelast year
#233granite 3.3 8b math prm v2Open weights9.8—FreeFree8 months ago
#234granite guardian 3.2 8b factuality detectionOpen weights8.8—FreeFree10 months ago
#235granite 3.1 1b a400m instructOpen weights11.7—FreeFreelast year
#236granite 3.1 3b a800m instructOpen weights11.5—FreeFreelast year
#241granite vision 3.2 2bOpen weights10.5—FreeFreelast year

No live endpoint

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Board statusModelGravityContextInput tokensOutput tokensReleased
No live endpointgranite swash 3b a600mOpen weights
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15.7—FreeFree2 months ago
No live endpointgranite swash 2bOpen weights
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15.8—FreeFree2 months ago
No live endpointgranite switch 4.1 30b previewOpen weights
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10.2—FreeFree4 months ago
No live endpointgranite switch 4.1 8b previewOpen weights
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10.4—FreeFree4 months ago
No live endpointgranite switch 4.1 3b previewOpen weights
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12.5—FreeFree4 months ago
No live endpointgranite vision 4.1 4bOpen weights
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16.2—FreeFree5 months ago
No live endpointgranite guardian 4.0 3b toxicity jaOpen weights
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9.8—FreeFree5 months ago
No live endpointgranite 4.0 3b visionOpen weights
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10.5—FreeFree6 months ago
No live endpointgranite vision 3.3 2b chart2csv previewOpen weights
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11.0—FreeFree7 months ago
No live endpointgranite 4.0 350mOpen weights
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13.5—FreeFree11 months ago
No live endpointgranite 4.0 1bOpen weights
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13.5—FreeFree11 months ago
No live endpointgranite 4.0 h 350mOpen weights
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12.1—FreeFree11 months ago
No live endpointgranite 4.0 h 1bOpen weights
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12.2—FreeFree11 months ago
No live endpointgranite 4.0 h tinyOpen weights
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14.1—FreeFreelast year
No live endpointgranite 4.0 h smallOpen weights
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13.3—FreeFreelast year
No live endpointgranite docling 258MOpen weights
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13.6—FreeFreelast year
No live endpointgranite 4.0 tiny previewOpen weights
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13.6—FreeFreelast year
No live endpointgranite 4.0 tiny base previewOpen weights
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5.4—FreeFreelast year
No live endpointGneissWeb.7B ablation model on 350B FineWeb.Edu.seed3Open weights
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4.4—FreeFreelast year
No live endpointGneissWeb.7B ablation model on 350B GneissWeb.seed3Open weights
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4.3—FreeFreelast year
No live endpointGneissWeb.7B ablation model on 350B FineWeb.seed3Open weights
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4.4—FreeFreelast year
No live endpointGneissWeb.7B ablation model on 350B FineWeb.Edu.seed2Open weights
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4.6—FreeFreelast year
No live endpointGneissWeb.7B ablation model on 350B GneissWeb.seed2Open weights
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4.5—FreeFreelast year
No live endpointGneissWeb.7B ablation model on 350B FineWeb.seed2Open weights
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4.3—FreeFreelast year
No live endpointGneissWeb.7B ablation model on 350B FineWeb.Edu.seed1Open weights
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4.2—FreeFreelast year
No live endpointGneissWeb.7B ablation model on 350B GneissWeb.seed1Open weights
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4.2—FreeFreelast year
No live endpointGneissWeb.7B ablation model on 350B FineWeb.seed1Open weights
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4.4—FreeFreelast year
No live endpointgranite guardian 3.2 3b a800mOpen weights
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11.6—FreeFreelast year
No live endpointgranite guardian 3.2 5bOpen weights
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10.8—FreeFreelast year
No live endpointgranite guardian 3.1 2bOpen weights
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10.8—FreeFreelast year
No live endpointgranite 8b code instruct 128kOpen weights
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9.7—FreeFree2 years ago
No live endpointgranite 3b code instruct 128kOpen weights
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8.9—FreeFree2 years ago
No live endpointgranite 20b code instruct r1.1Open weights
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7.4—FreeFree2 years ago
No live endpointgranite 20b code base r1.1Open weights
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5.0—FreeFree2 years ago
No live endpointgranite 20b functioncallingOpen weights
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6.5—FreeFree2 years ago
No live endpointgranite 8b code base 128kOpen weights
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5.9—FreeFree2 years ago
No live endpointgranite 3b code base 128kOpen weights
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6.9—FreeFree2 years ago

Reviewed equivalent routes

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Board statusModelGravityContextInput tokensOutput tokensReleased
Represented by Granite 4.2 8Bgranite 4.2 8b nvfp4Open weights
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14.2—FreeFreelast month
Represented by Granite 4.2 8Bgranite 4.2 8b mxfp4Open weights
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13.7—FreeFreelast month
Represented by Granite 4.2 8Bgranite 4.2 8b fp8Open weights
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14.6—FreeFreelast month
Represented by granite 4.2 3bgranite 4.2 3b nvfp4Open weights
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14.0—FreeFreelast month
Represented by granite 4.2 3bgranite 4.2 3b mxfp4Open weights
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13.7—FreeFreelast month
Represented by granite 4.2 3bgranite 4.2 3b fp8Open weights
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13.8—FreeFreelast month
Represented by granite 4.2 30bgranite 4.2 30b nvfp4Open weights
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14.7—FreeFreelast month
Represented by granite 4.2 30bgranite 4.2 30b mxfp4Open weights
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13.7—FreeFreelast month
Represented by granite 4.2 30bgranite 4.2 30b fp8Open weights
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14.4—FreeFreelast month
Represented by granite 4.1 30bgranite 4.1 30b fp8Open weights
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12.9—FreeFree5 months ago
Represented by granite 4.1 8bgranite 4.1 8b fp8Open weights
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14.6—FreeFree5 months ago
Represented by granite 4.1 3bgranite 4.1 3b fp8Open weights
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12.3—FreeFree5 months ago
Represented by granite 4.1 30bgranite 4.1 30b baseOpen weights
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12.8—FreeFree5 months ago
Represented by granite 4.1 8bgranite 4.1 8b baseOpen weights
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13.3—FreeFree5 months ago
Represented by granite 4.1 3bgranite 4.1 3b baseOpen weights
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14.4—FreeFree5 months ago
Represented by granite 3.3 8b instructgranite 3.3 8b instruct FP8Open weights
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11.4—FreeFree11 months ago
Represented by granite 4.0 350mgranite 4.0 350m baseOpen weights
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11.5—FreeFree11 months ago
Represented by granite 4.0 1bgranite 4.0 1b baseOpen weights
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13.9—FreeFree11 months ago
Represented by granite 4.0 h 350mgranite 4.0 h 350m baseOpen weights
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11.8—FreeFree11 months ago
Represented by granite 4.0 h 1bgranite 4.0 h 1b baseOpen weights
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10.0—FreeFree11 months ago
Represented by granite 4.0 h smallgranite 4.0 h small FP8Open weights
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9.7—FreeFree11 months ago
Represented by granite 4.0 microgranite 4.0 micro baseOpen weights
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11.2—FreeFreelast year
Represented by granite 4.0 h tinygranite 4.0 h tiny baseOpen weights
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8.3—FreeFreelast year
Represented by Granite 4.0 Microgranite 4.0 h micro baseOpen weights
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9.2—FreeFreelast year
Represented by granite docling 258Mgranite docling 258M mlxOpen weights
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11.5—FreeFreelast year
Represented by granite 3.3 8b instructgranite 3.3 8b baseOpen weights
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11.2—FreeFreelast year
Represented by granite 3.3 2b instructgranite 3.3 2b baseOpen weights
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10.3—FreeFreelast year
Equivalent routegranite 3.1 8b lora intrinsics v0.1Open weights
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7.9—FreeFreelast year
Equivalent routegranite 3.0 8b lora intrinsics v0.1Open weights
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7.9—FreeFreelast year
Represented by granite 3.1 1b a400m instructgranite 3.1 1b a400m baseOpen weights
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11.2—FreeFreelast year
Represented by granite 3.1 3b a800m instructgranite 3.1 3b a800m baseOpen weights
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11.1—FreeFreelast year
Represented by granite 3.1 2b instructgranite 3.1 2b baseOpen weights
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9.1—FreeFreelast year
Represented by granite 3.1 8b instructgranite 3.1 8b baseOpen weights
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9.1—FreeFreelast year
Represented by granite 3.0 1b a400m instructgranite 3.0 1b a400m baseOpen weights
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12.4—FreeFreelast year
Represented by granite 3.0 3b a800m instructgranite 3.0 3b a800m baseOpen weights
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8.7—FreeFreelast year
Represented by granite 3.0 8b instructgranite 3.0 8b baseOpen weights
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11.7—FreeFreelast year
Represented by granite 3.0 2b instructgranite 3.0 2b baseOpen weights
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10.6—FreeFreelast year

Superseded versions

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Board statusModelGravityContextInput tokensOutput tokensReleased
Superseded by granite 4.2 30bgranite 4.1 30bOpen weights
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16.9—FreeFree5 months ago
Superseded by Granite 4.2 8Bgranite 4.1 8bOpen weights
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16.3—FreeFree5 months ago
Superseded by granite 4.2 3bgranite 4.1 3bOpen weights
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16.6—FreeFree5 months ago
Superseded by Granite 4.0 Microgranite 4.0 microOpen weights
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14.0—FreeFreelast year
Superseded by granite guardian 4.1 8bgranite guardian 3.3 8bOpen weights
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14.3—FreeFreelast year
Superseded by granite 3.3 8b instructgranite 3.2 8b instructOpen weights
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13.0—FreeFreelast year
Superseded by granite 3.3 2b instructgranite 3.2 2b instructOpen weights
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11.5—FreeFreelast year
Superseded by granite 3.3 8b instructgranite 3.2 8b instruct previewOpen weights
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5.7—FreeFreelast year
Superseded by granite vision 3.2 2bgranite vision 3.1 2b previewOpen weights
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9.7—FreeFreelast year
Superseded by granite guardian 4.1 8bgranite guardian 3.1 8bOpen weights
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10.2—FreeFreelast year
Superseded by granite 3.3 2b instructgranite 3.1 2b instructOpen weights
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12.0—FreeFreelast year
Superseded by granite 3.3 8b instructgranite 3.1 8b instructOpen weights
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13.1—FreeFreelast year
Superseded by granite guardian 3.1 2bgranite guardian 3.0 2bOpen weights
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11.2—FreeFreelast year
Superseded by granite guardian 4.1 8bgranite guardian 3.0 8bOpen weights
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8.1—FreeFreelast year
Superseded by granite 3.1 1b a400m instructgranite 3.0 1b a400m instructOpen weights
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13.2—FreeFreelast year
Superseded by granite 3.1 3b a800m instructgranite 3.0 3b a800m instructOpen weights
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9.9—FreeFreelast year
Superseded by granite 3.3 8b instructgranite 3.0 8b instructOpen weights
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12.9—FreeFreelast year
Superseded by granite 3.3 2b instructgranite 3.0 2b instructOpen weights
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11.3—FreeFreelast year

Other off-board models

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Board statusModelGravityContextInput tokensOutput tokensReleased
Off boardGranite 4.0 MicroOpen weights
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12.7131K$0.017$0.11211 months ago

IBM Granite models: common questions

How many AI models has IBM Granite released?

ModelCap tracks 67 canonical IBM Granite models as of 22 September 2026: 67 language models (11 with a public ModelCap Index position). Superseded versions and equivalent serving routes stay listed on this page, marked as such.

What is the best IBM Granite model?

granite 4.2 30b is IBM Granite's highest-ranked model as of 22 September 2026, at ModelCap Index position #150 with a score of 36.2, followed by granite 4.2 3b (#164). The table lists every ranked IBM Granite model in Index order.

What is the cheapest IBM Granite model?

Granite 4.0 Micro at $0.112 per 1M output tokens ($0.017 per 1M input) as of 22 September 2026, the lowest listed price among IBM Granite's 2 priced language models. Prices are the lowest current provider offer on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Which IBM Granite model has the largest context window?

granite 4.2 30b, with a published context window of 131K tokens. Individual providers can serve less than the published maximum; each model page lists every endpoint's own limit.

Are IBM Granite models open-weight?

67 of 67 tracked IBM Granite models publish downloadable weights (open weights). ModelCap labels weight availability from repository metadata, not whether the training stack is open source; the licence class is shown beside each row.

What is the newest IBM Granite model?

Granite 4.2 8B, first listed on 31 August 2026 and currently ModelCap Index #165. New IBM Granite models appear here as soon as they pass automatic identity checks; the launches page tracks releases across every publisher.

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