Granite 3.1 2B Instruct

Released
2024-12-18
Last refreshed
2026-10-06
Status
Researched 181d ago
Open sourceCommercial use: permittedLong context

Granite 3.1 2B Instruct is a released long context model with open-source and 128K context; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.

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Specifications
Family
Granite 3
Released
2024-12-18
Context
128K
Parameters
2B
Architecture
Decoder Only
Knowledge cutoff
2024-04
Openness
Open source
License
Apache 2.0OSI-approvedPermitted
Weights
Available
Code
Unknown
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About

IBM Granite 3.1 2B Instruct (2.5B actual parameters) is a compact instruction-tuned model with 128K context window. Dense decoder-only transformer with 40 layers, 2048 embedding, GQA. Trained on 12 trillion tokens. Supports 12 languages, code, RAG, and long-context tasks. Used as the LLM backbone for Granite Vision 3.2 2B. Apache 2.0.

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Capabilities

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Benchmark scores(1)

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BenchmarkScoreVersionEvaluationSource
1179.0text_style_control overall 2026-10-22 (style control, default view)Observed 2026-10-26
Configuration: Granite 3.1 2B Instruct
Harness: LMArena blind pairwise human votes, Bradley-Terry
Evaluator: LMArena
Confidence: confirmed
Notes: LMArena text style control leaderboard, overall category, published 2026-10-22 (HF lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset @9761a3ce, latest split). Board entry 'Granite 3.1 2B Instruct': rank 363, Arena Score 1178.9 (95% CI 1167.8-1190.1), 3188 votes. Retrieved 2026-10-26.
Source

Source: LMArena (lmarena.ai), CC BY 4.0

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