Skip to content
llmwaves

Granite 4.1 8B

IBM Granite · released Apr 30, 2026

Open weightsTool useStructured output

Granite 4.1 8B is a dense, decoder-only 8-billion-parameter language model from IBM, part of the Granite 4.1 family. It supports a 131K-token context window and is designed for enterprise tasks...

Specification

Context window
131K
Max output
131K
Knowledge cutoff
Not stated
Parameters
8.8B
Licence
apache-2.0
Serving providers
1
Moderated
No
Uptime
100.0%

Intelligence

6.4

20th percentile

Coding

9.5

Coding Index

Agentic

Agentic Index

Output speed

121 t/s

Median across providers

Latency

118ms

Time to first token

Cost per task

$0.005

Estimated

Benchmarks

Where the score comes from

The Intelligence Index is a composite. These are the underlying evaluations this model was actually measured on.

Evaluation scores

Percentage correct · higher is better

  • GPQA Diamond
    43.3%
  • IFBench
    38.6%
  • τ²-bench (Telecom)
    27.8%
  • SciCode
    21.8%
  • AA-LCR (long context)
    11.3%
  • Humanity's Last Exam
    3.8%
  • Terminal-Bench Hard
    0.0%

An evaluation missing from this list was not run for this model — it is not a zero.

View as table
EvaluationScore
GPQA Diamond43.3%
IFBench38.6%
τ²-bench (Telecom)27.8%
SciCode21.8%
AA-LCR (long context)11.3%
Humanity's Last Exam3.8%
Terminal-Bench Hard0.0%

Against its peers

Intelligence Index · this model highlighted, nearest peers in grey

Peers are the models sitting closest on the Intelligence Index — the set you would realistically choose between.

View as table
ModelIntelligence
GLM 4.5V6.8
GPT-46.8
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite6.7
GPT-4o-mini6.7
GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)6.7
Granite 4.1 8B6.4
Saba6.2
Olmo 3 32B Think6.1

Percentile among all indexed models

Intelligence20th
Coding9th
Terminal work0th

Pricing

What it costs to run

List prices per million tokens, plus what one representative task works out to.

List price

Input / 1M tokens
$0.05
Output / 1M tokens
$0.1
Cached input / 1M
$0.05
Blended 3:1
$0.063

One task, estimated

$0.005

Input tokens
50,000
Output tokens
25,000
Profile
Standard

Estimated from list pricing: 50K input tokens plus 80K output tokens for reasoning models (25K for non-reasoning).

Serving providers

Speed and latency figures are medians across these providers, so a widely-served model reports a blend rather than any single endpoint.