Granite 4.0 Micro
Granite 4.0 Micro has model metadata, but missing tracked provider pricing keeps it from being a default production pick.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating long context
- Workloads that can use a 128k context window
Do not use it for
- Cost-sensitive launches that need sourced token pricing
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Granite 4
- Released
- 2025-10-02
- Context
- 128k
- Parameters
- 3B
- Architecture
- Dense decoder-only transformer: 40 layers, GQA with RoPE, SwiGLU
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0(OSI)Commercial use allowed
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.
About
IBM Granite 4.0 Micro is a 3B dense (non-hybrid) instruct model using a conventional transformer architecture. 40 attention layers with GQA (32 heads, 8 KV heads) and RoPE. Distinct from Granite 4.0 H-Micro which uses hybrid Mamba2/attention architecture. Supports multilingual dialog (12 languages), code (FIM), tool-calling, and RAG. Apache 2.0.
Granite 4.0 Micro is an open-source model in the Granite 4 family. The structured metadata tracks a 128k-token context window. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Granite 4.0 Micro yet.
Top use-case fit
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
No tracked provider token pricing is available for this model yet.
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Long context
No task-mapped benchmark peers are available for this model yet.
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.