Granite 3.0 8B Instruct: API pricing, providers and specs
Granite 3.0 8B Instruct is a text model by IBM. 2 providers serve it, from $0.25 to $0.25 /1M; the lowest price is at Replicate.
How Granite 3.0 8B Instruct compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.25 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 80% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- 2 providers serve it; 36% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the Apache 2.0 license: commercial use allowed.
Granite 3.0 8B Instruct prices by provider
Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- IBM
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- —
- Max output
- —
- Capabilities
- —
- Released
- Oct 2, 2024
- License
- Apache 2.0commercial use allowed
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 8.2B
Alternatives to Granite 3.0 8B Instruct
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granite 3.0 8B Instructthis model | $0.25/1M | — | — | 2 |
 GLM-5.3-Flash | $0.20/1M | 1.05M | 1608 | 45 |
 Qwen3.8 27B | $0.50/1M | 262K | 1591 | 33 |
| GPT-6 Luna | $0.40/1M | 1.05M | 1578 | 28 |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.30/1M | 1M | 1585 | 27 |
 MiMo-V2.6-Pro | $0.696/1M | 1.05M | 1625 | 21 |
| Qwen3.8 Flash Next | $0.376/1M | 262K | 1628 | 5 |
 DeepSeek V4 Flash | $0.17/1M | 1.05M | — | 26 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | $0.294/1M | 1.05M | — | 26 |
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Granite 3.0 8B Instruct FAQ
The lowest price for Granite 3.0 8B Instruct is $0.25 /1M, at Replicate.
Replicate, at $0.25 /1M. 2 providers serve Granite 3.0 8B Instruct; the table above lists every one with its price.
Yes. Granite 3.0 8B Instruct's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the Apache 2.0 license.
About 8.2B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
2 API providers serve Granite 3.0 8B Instruct. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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