LLM Reference

Granite 4.0 1B Speech

Released
2026-03-06
Last refreshed
2026-04-18
Status
Researched 182d ago
Open sourceCommercial use: permitted

Granite 4.0 1B Speech is a released general LLM work model with open-source; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.

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
Specifications
Family
Granite 4
Released
2026-03-06
Parameters
1B
Architecture
Audio / Speech
Specialization
audio
Openness
Open source
License
Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
Training
Pretrained
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Pricing

No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.

About

IBM Granite 4.0 1B Speech is a multilingual ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) and AST (Automatic Speech Translation) model. Supports English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese with higher English ASR accuracy and faster inference via speculative decoding. Features keyword biasing for names and acronyms.

Granite 4.0 1B Speech is an open-source model in the Granite 4 family. The structured metadata tracks audio. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Granite 4.0 1B Speech yet.

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.

Capabilities

Audio

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.

Frequently asked questions

When was Granite 4.0 1B Speech released?

Granite 4.0 1B Speech was released on 2026-03-06.