Granite 4.1 8B

by ibm · family granite

Facts

Release date	2026-04-29
Retired date	—
Knowledge cutoff	—
Context (max)	131,072
Max output	—
Modalities	text → text
Aliases	`granite-4.1-8b`
Open weights	yes (ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b)
Description	IBM's current small long-context instruct model: 8B dense, 131K context, Apache-2.0. $0.05/$0.10 per Mtok on OpenRouter.

Unknown values are shown as —.

Offerings

Provider	Wire ID	Variant	Endpoint	Protocol	Status	Price (USD / Mtok)	Reasoning
OpenRouter	`ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b`		chat-completions	openai-chat	retired	0.05 / 0.10	none · default off · returns reasoning_content

Reasoning controls

OpenRouter· ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b· chat-completions none

none · default off · returns reasoning_content

Example requests

OpenRouter · openai-chat · ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b

curl 'https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_KEY>' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "model": "ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Tell me about the weather."
    }
  ]
}'

Python (requests)

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions",
    headers={
      "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_API_KEY>",
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    json={
      "model": "ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b",
      "messages": [
        {
          "role": "user",
          "content": "Tell me about the weather."
        }
      ]
    },
)
print(resp.json())

TypeScript (fetch)

const resp = await fetch("https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <YOUR_API_KEY>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "model": "ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Tell me about the weather."
      }
    ]
  }),
})
console.log(await resp.json())