Granite 4.1 30B
Analysis Summary
Granite 4.1 30B posts low scores across reasoning, coding and agentic benchmarks, indicating it is designed for lightweight or specialised tasks rather than general business use.
It is unlikely to satisfy demanding coding, agentic or long-form content workloads, and its instruction-following and long-context reasoning scores confirm meaningful limitations versus current-generation models.
Best reserved for narrow, low-stakes internal tooling where cost and simplicity outweigh the need for strong reasoning.
Assessed July 29, 2026
Editorial notes
Granite 4.1 30B from IBM shows limited reasoning, coding and agentic performance across the board, positioning it as a lightweight utility model only.
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DFO Verdict
Granite 4.1 30B from IBM shows limited reasoning, coding and agentic performance across the board, positioning it as a lightweight utility model only.
Benchmark scores
Magenta = intelligence · Ink = technical/agentic · Cyan = content & long-context · Grey = community benchmarks. Data: Artificial Analysis, Hugging Face.
8.9 Intelligence Index·10.4 Coding Index·1.3 Agentic Index
How Granite 4.1 30B compares
Granite 4.1 30B ranks #267 of 401 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #150 of 176 for coding, #143 of 157 for agentic tasks. Granite 4.1 30B 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 content. The pulled-in value corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
Compare shapes side-by-side →Frequently asked questions about Granite 4.1 30B
How much does Granite 4.1 30B cost?
Granite 4.1 30B is currently available for free via OpenRouter.
Is Granite 4.1 30B good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, Granite 4.1 30B ranks #150 of 176 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.
Who created Granite 4.1 30B?
Granite 4.1 30B is developed by IBM and was released on April 29, 2026.
