Granite 4.0 350M
Analysis Summary
Granite 4.0 350M is IBM's compact model released in October 2025. The supplied data contains only a very low general intelligence result, with no measurements for coding, agentic behavior, instruction following, context, speed, or pricing. The small parameter scale may be relevant to constrained deployment, but the record provides no evidence that it can handle business language tasks reliably.
Potential uses are limited to research, simple classification experiments, or legacy environments that impose strict resource constraints. It should not be selected for content writing, SEO, customer communication, software engineering, long-document analysis, or tool-driven agents. Teams considering it would need to supply their own task-specific evaluation and deployment measurements. In the absence of that evidence, keep it outside new client workflows and use a stronger compact model for routine automation.
Assessed August 9, 2026
Editorial notes
Granite 4.0 350M is an compact IBM model with very limited measured intelligence and no additional benchmark or pricing evidence. It is not appropriate for current client-facing language work.
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DFO Verdict
Granite 4.0 350M is an compact IBM model with very limited measured intelligence and no additional benchmark or pricing evidence. It is not appropriate for current client-facing language work.
How Granite 4.0 350M compares
Granite 4.0 350M ranks #420 of 428 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Granite 4.0 350M is currently free to use via OpenRouter.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on business fit. The pulled-in value corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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How much does Granite 4.0 350M cost?
Granite 4.0 350M is currently available for free via OpenRouter.
Who created Granite 4.0 350M?
Granite 4.0 350M is developed by IBM and was released on October 28, 2025.