Granite Guardian 4.1 8B
Granite Guardian 4.1 8B is a released classification model with open-source; evaluate it while provider pricing coverage matures.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating classification
- Workloads that can use a 8k 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 Guardian
- Released
- 2026-04-29
- Context
- 8k
- Parameters
- 8B
- Specialization
- safety
- Openness
- Open source
- License
- Apache 2.0OSI-approvedCommercial use: permitted
- Weights
- Available
- Code
- Unknown
No tracked provider token pricing is available yet.
About
IBM Granite Guardian 4.1 8B is a safety and risk-detection model fine-tuned from Granite 4.1 8B. Features hybrid thinking mode (detailed reasoning via <think> tags or fast yes/no). Detects: harm, social bias, jailbreaking, violence, profanity, sexual content, unethical behavior, RAG hallucination (groundedness, context relevance, answer relevance), and function-calling hallucination in agentic workflows. Supports custom judging criteria (BYOC). Acts as reward model for best-of-N selection. Benchmarks: OOD Safety F1 0.79, RAG hallucination avg BAcc 0.76, BFCL function calling BAcc 0.79. Apache 2.0.
Top use-case fit
Classification
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
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Capabilities
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Benchmark peer barsfor Classification
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