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Granite 4.1 8B Pricing

IBM Granite · ibm-granite-granite-4-1-8b

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Input / 1M tokens
$0.050
Output / 1M tokens
$0.100
Context window
131,072 tokens
175 pages of text
Max output
131,072 tokens

What it costs in practice

Estimate your own workloadOpens the calculator with Granite 4.1 8B preloaded — adjust volume and token counts there.

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What it excels at

Suitable for high-volume text classification, summarization, and simple instruction following when deployed via open weights. Low inference cost supports large-scale internal enterprise workloads.

The business tradeoff

8B scale produces noticeable gaps in multi-step reasoning and complex coding relative to 30B+ models. Output quality depends heavily on user fine-tuning and prompt engineering.

Cheaper from IBM Granite

Same tier from other providers

Head-to-head

Vendor list rates, as of Jun 15, 2026 · source: openrouter · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.