IBM: Granite 4.1 8B
Analysis Summary
IBM: Granite 4.1 8B sits in the Efficient tier on our leaderboard, ranked #222 of 557 published models on overall intelligence. At $0.050 input and $0.100 output per 1M tokens, it is among the most expensive on the market. It offers a standard large context window and supports tool use and function calling.
Editorial notes
IBM Granite 4.1 8B is a low-cost compact model with tool use, but benchmark scores are very limited across reasoning and coding, restricting it to simple automation tasks.
Assessed May 14, 2026
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Performance Profile
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..
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Model Information
| OpenRouter ID |
ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b
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| Provider | ibm-granite |
| Release Date | April 30, 2026 |
| Context Length | 131,072 tokens |
| Max Completion | 131,072 tokens |
| Status | Active |
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.05 | $0.000050 |
| Output | $0.10 | $0.000100 |
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