Granite Guardian 3.0 8B vs Teuken 7B Instruct
Granite Guardian 3.0 8B (2025) and Teuken 7B Instruct (2024) are compact production models from IBM Research and OpenGPT-X. Granite Guardian 3.0 8B ships a 8k-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 Guardian 3.0 8B is safer overall; choose Teuken 7B Instruct when provider fit matters.
Decision scorecard
Local evidence first| Signal | Granite Guardian 3.0 8B | Teuken 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | general production evaluation | general production evaluation |
| Decision fit | Classification | General |
| Context window | 8k | 4k |
| Cheapest output | - | - |
| Provider routes | 1 tracked | 1 tracked |
| Shared benchmarks | 0 shared | 0 shared |
Decision tradeoffs
- Granite Guardian 3.0 8B has the larger context window for long prompts, retrieval packs, or transcript analysis.
- Local decision data tags Granite Guardian 3.0 8B for Classification.
- 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 Guardian 3.0 8B
Unavailable
No complete token price in local provider data
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
- Provider overlap exists on NVIDIA NIM; start route-level A/B tests there.
- Provider overlap exists on NVIDIA NIM; start route-level A/B tests there.
Specs
| Specification | ||
|---|---|---|
| Released | 2025-03-01 | 2024-10-01 |
| Context window | 8k | 4k |
| Parameters | 8B | 7B |
| Architecture | Decoder Only | Decoder Only |
| License | Apache 2.0OSI-approved | Open Weights |
| Openness | Open source | Open weights |
| Weights | Unknown | Unknown |
| Code | Unknown | Unknown |
| Commercial use | Commercial use: permitted | - |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-04 | 2023-09 |
Pricing and availability
| Pricing attribute | Granite Guardian 3.0 8B | Teuken 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | - | - |
| Output price | - | - |
| Providers |
Pricing not yet sourced for either model.
Capabilities
| Capability | Granite Guardian 3.0 8B | Teuken 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Vision | No | No |
| Multimodal | No | No |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| JSON / Tool use | No | No |
| Structured outputs | No | No |
| Code execution | No | No |
| IDE integration | No | No |
| Computer use | No | No |
| Parallel agents | No | No |
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.