IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro
IBM's Granite 4.0 Micro is a compact, ultra-low-cost model with very limited benchmark performance across reasoning, coding, and instruction following — it's best suited to lightweight, cost-sensitive edge deployments rather than demanding business applications.
Assessment date: March 12, 2026
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Granite-4.0-H-Micro is a 3B parameter from the Granite 4 family of models. These models are the latest in a series of models released by IBM. They are fine-tuned for long context tool calling.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text → Text |
| Tokenizer | Other |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Evaluations
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.02 | $0.000017 |
| Output | $0.11 | $0.000110 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
External Resources
Data sourced from OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard. Scores are editorially curated by our team.
Last updated: March 13, 2026 7:52 pm