Granite 8B Code
Granite 8B Code is a legacy integration reference; keep it only while you identify a current replacement.
Use it for
- Teams maintaining an existing integration
- Workloads that can use a 8k context window
- Buyers comparing 3 tracked provider routes
Do not use it for
- New production launches
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Granite Code
- Released
- 2024-05-06
- Context
- 8k
- Parameters
- 8B
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Unknown
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Fine-tuned
Cheapest of 3 routes · IBM watsonx
About
Granite 8B Code is IBM Research's Granite Code model. It is deprecated (originally released 2024-05-06); use it only for reproducing earlier results or evaluating drift over time.
Granite 8B Code is an open-source model in the Granite Code family. The structured metadata tracks a 8k-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through NVIDIA NIM, RHEL AI, and IBM watsonx, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.6 input and $0.6 output per 1M tokens. No headline benchmark score is tracked for Granite 8B Code yet.
Top use-case fit
No primary decision-task fit is mapped for this model yet.
Provider price ladder
Compare all 3Compare API pricing across 3 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| IBM watsonx | $0.600 | $0.600 | Serverless |
| NVIDIA NIM | - | - | ProvisionedPartial |
| RHEL AI | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
Available via routers & gateways(1)
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
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
What is the context window of Granite 8B Code?
Granite 8B Code has a context window of 8k tokens.
How much does Granite 8B Code cost?
Granite 8B Code is available at $0.6/1M input tokens through IBM watsonx.
When was Granite 8B Code released?
Granite 8B Code was released on 2024-05-06.
Which providers offer Granite 8B Code?
Granite 8B Code is available from 3 providers: NVIDIA NIM, RHEL AI, IBM watsonx.
Cheapest of 3 routes · IBM watsonx