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Granite 3.3 8B Instruct vs Teuken 7B Instruct

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct (2025) and Teuken 7B Instruct (2024) are compact production models from IBM Research and OpenGPT-X. Granite 3.3 8B Instruct ships a 128k-token context window, while Teuken 7B Instruct ships a 4k-token context window. This comparison covers specs, pricing, API access, capabilities, benchmarks, input and output token costs, and production fit for coding and agent workloads. It focuses on practical selection signals rather than broad model-family marketing.

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct fits 32x more tokens; pick it for long-context work and Teuken 7B Instruct for tighter calls.

Decision scorecard

Local evidence first
SignalGranite 3.3 8B InstructTeuken 7B Instruct
Best fortool-calling agents and provider-routed productiongeneral production evaluation
Decision fitRAG, Agents, and Long contextGeneral
Context window128k4k
Cheapest output$0.25/1M tokens-
Provider routes2 tracked1 tracked
Shared benchmarks0 shared0 shared

Decision tradeoffs

Choose Granite 3.3 8B Instruct when...
  • Granite 3.3 8B Instruct has the larger context window for long prompts, retrieval packs, or transcript analysis.
  • Granite 3.3 8B Instruct has broader tracked provider coverage for fallback and route flexibility.
  • Granite 3.3 8B Instruct uniquely exposes JSON / Tool use in local model data.
  • Local decision data tags Granite 3.3 8B Instruct for RAG, Agents, and Long context.
Choose Teuken 7B Instruct when...
  • Use Teuken 7B Instruct when your own prompt tests beat the comparison signals; the local data does not show a decisive standalone advantage yet.

Monthly cost at traffic

Estimate token spend from the cheapest tracked input and output route or tier on this page.

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

$86.50

Cheapest tracked route/tier: Replicate API

Teuken 7B Instruct

Unavailable

No complete token price in local provider data

Cost delta unavailable until both models have sourced input and output token prices.

Switch friction

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct -> Teuken 7B Instruct
  • Provider overlap exists on NVIDIA NIM; start route-level A/B tests there.
  • Check replacement coverage for JSON / Tool use before moving production traffic.
Teuken 7B Instruct -> Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
  • Provider overlap exists on NVIDIA NIM; start route-level A/B tests there.
  • Granite 3.3 8B Instruct adds JSON / Tool use in local capability data.

Specs

Specification
Released2025-03-012024-10-01
Context window128k4k
Parameters8B7B
ArchitectureDecoder OnlyDecoder Only
LicenseApache 2.0OSI-approvedOpen Weights
OpennessOpen sourceOpen weights
WeightsUnknownUnknown
CodeUnknownUnknown
Commercial useCommercial use: permitted-
Knowledge cutoff2024-042023-09

Pricing and availability

Pricing attributeGranite 3.3 8B InstructTeuken 7B Instruct
Input price$0.03/1M tokens-
Output price$0.25/1M tokens-
Providers

Capabilities

CapabilityGranite 3.3 8B InstructTeuken 7B Instruct
VisionNoNo
MultimodalNoNo
ReasoningNoNo
JSON / Tool useYesNo
Structured outputsNoNo
Code executionNoNo
IDE integrationNoNo
Computer useNoNo
Parallel agentsNoNo

Benchmarks

No shared benchmark scores are currently available for this pair.

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Last reviewed: 2026-06-29. Data sourced from public model cards and provider documentation.