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Granite 3B

granite-3b

Researched 139d ago

Last refreshed 2026-04-15. Next refresh: weekly.

Open Source

Granite 3B has model metadata, but missing tracked provider pricing keeps it from being a default production pick.

Decision context: Coding task fit, 0 tracked provider routes, and research from 2026-01-01.

Use it for

  • Teams evaluating general LLM work

Do not use it for

  • Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
  • Vision or document-understanding workloads
  • Strict JSON or tool-calling flows

Cheapest output

-

No tracked output price

Provider routes

0

No provider route in seed

Quality / dollar

Unknown

No task benchmark coverage yet

Freshness

2026-01-01

Researched 139d ago

stale

Top use-case fit

No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.

Provider price ladder

No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.

Benchmark peer barsfor Coding

No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.

Migration checks

No linked migration route is available for this model yet.

About

3B parameter foundation model from IBM Research. Business-oriented decoder-only language model. Part of Granite 3 series being phased toward Granite 4.

Capabilities

No model capability flags are currently sourced.

Rankings

Specifications

FamilyGranite
Released2024-10-21
Parameters3B
LicenseApache 2.0

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