Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct is worth evaluating for rag, agents, and long context when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating rag, agents, and long context
- Workloads that can use a 128k context window
- Buyers comparing 2 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Family
- Granite 3
- Released
- 2025-03-01
- Context
- 128k
- Parameters
- 8B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-04
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Cheapest of 2 routes · Replicate API
About
IBM Granite 3.3 8B with improved reasoning capabilities. Part of IBM's enterprise-focused Granite model family optimized for instruction following.
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct is an open-source model in the Granite 3 family. The structured metadata tracks a 128k-token context window, function calling, and tool use. This page tracks provider routes through NVIDIA NIM and Replicate API, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.03 input and $0.25 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Granite 3.3 8B Instruct yet.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
RAG
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Agents
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 2Compare API pricing across 2 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Replicate API | $0.030 | $0.250 | Serverless |
| NVIDIA NIM | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
Available via routers & gateways(1)
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor RAG
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Rankings & picks(1)
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Comparison and alternatives
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What is the context window of Granite 3.3 8B Instruct?
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct has a context window of 128k tokens.
How much does Granite 3.3 8B Instruct cost?
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct is available at $0.03/1M input tokens through Replicate API.
When was Granite 3.3 8B Instruct released?
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct was released on 2025-03-01.
Which providers offer Granite 3.3 8B Instruct?
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct is available from 2 providers: NVIDIA NIM, Replicate API.
Cheapest of 2 routes · Replicate API