Granite 4.1 30B
Analysis Summary
IBM's Granite 4.1 30B is a benchmarked text model with modest reasoning and coding results. Its measured instruction-following and long-context performance are limited, and terminal and tool-oriented results do not support dependable autonomous operation. No pricing or context window is supplied, which also makes deployment economics harder to assess.
The model may handle narrow classification, extraction, templated rewriting, or internal experiments where prompts and outputs are tightly controlled. It is not a strong choice for complex software engineering, strategic content, long-document reasoning, or client-facing agents. Design for Online should adopt it only for clearly bounded tasks after testing latency, hosting, and operational behaviour in the intended environment.
Assessed August 9, 2026
Editorial notes
Granite 4.1 30B offers measurable baseline performance but limited reasoning, coding, long-context, and terminal reliability. It is better suited to constrained internal tasks than autonomous agents or complex client content.
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DFO Verdict
Granite 4.1 30B offers measurable baseline performance but limited reasoning, coding, long-context, and terminal reliability. It is better suited to constrained internal tasks than autonomous agents or complex client content.
Benchmark scores
Magenta = intelligence · Ink = technical/agentic · Cyan = content & long-context · Grey = community benchmarks. Data: Artificial Analysis, Hugging Face.
8.7 Intelligence Index·10.4 Coding Index·1.3 Agentic Index
How Granite 4.1 30B compares
Granite 4.1 30B ranks #297 of 427 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #174 of 200 for coding, #168 of 182 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 #174 of 200 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.