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Granite 3.3 8B

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74
Intelligence Index

d'IBM à poids ouverts d'entreprise modèle de fondation avec Apache 2.0 licensing, verified copyright indemnity, et strict sécurité guardrails.

Technical Specifications

Provider
IBM
Category
open-source
Release Date
2025-04
Knowledge Cutoff
January 2025
Architecture
Enterprise-Calibrated Open Transformer
Parameters
8B
Context Window
128K tokens
Max Output
8K tokens
Cached Input Price
$0 / 1M tokens
Batch API Discount
Standard rate
Consumer Subscription
Free / Self-Hosted
Reasoning Mode
Yes (Chain-of-Thought)
Reasoning Effort Control
Fixed
Tool Calling
Yes
Structured Outputs
Yes
Open Weights
Yes (Open Source / Self-Hostable)
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text
Official Documentation
Visit Official Docs ↗

Data Privacy, Licensing & Deployment Governance

API Data Training Policy
100% Isolated when self-hosted on private GPUs or VPC
Model License & Commercial Rights
Open-Weights Research & Commercial License
Deployment & Cloud Availability
Self-Hosted GPU (vLLM / Ollama), Private VPC, or Managed Serverless API
Output Ownership
Full commercial ownership of generated outputs

Official Provider Release Intelligence, API Quotas & Agentic Specs

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Official API Model ID (SDK String)
granite-3-3-8b
Supported SDK & API Protocol
OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI
Lifecycle & Deprecation Status
Active GA (Guaranteed support through 2027+)
Production Rate Limits (RPM & TPM)
Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud
Long-Context Pricing Tier (>128K / >200K)
Free across full context window (only KV-cache VRAM scales)
Prompt Cache Write & TTL Policy
Automatic prefix KV-caching in vLLM / SGLang (0 cost)
Computer Use & Browser GUI Agent
API / CLI Tool-Use & DOM Agent ready (no raw pixel desktop click loop)
MCP & Parallel Tool Calling
Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema
Web Search Grounding & Code Sandbox
Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools
Fine-Tuning & Distillation Support
Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory)
Multimodal Tokenization Billing
Text BPE (~4 chars/token)
Weights Precision & Quantization
BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0)
Minimum GPU VRAM Requirement
5 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 17 GB VRAM (Native BF16)
Supported Inference Engines
vLLM, SGLang, Ollama, llama.cpp, TensorRT-LLM, HuggingFace TGI
System Card & Safety Framework
Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma)
Enterprise Compliance (SOC2 / HIPAA / ZDR)
100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control
Engineering & Pricing Workbench

Granite 3.3 8B Cost, Context, Hardware & API Integration

500 / day
4,000 tok
1,000 tok
Conversation Depth (History Re-billing):1 Turn (Single-Shot)
50%
Estimated Monthly API Cost (30 Days)
Free ($0)
Subscription ($20/mo) vs API

Open-weights or free-tier model: $0 API license cost when self-hosted.

Same Monthly Workload Cost Across Popular Reference Models

Granite 3.3 8B (Active)
$0.00
/ month
Gemini 2.5 Flash
$18.00
/ month
DeepSeek V3
$32.70
/ month
GPT-4o
$300.00
/ month
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
$405.00
/ month

Live Prompt Paste Tokenizer & Cost Counter

Paste real system instructions, JSON schemas, or code to measure BPE token counts across tokenizers.

Chars / Words
175 / 24
OpenAI o200k
~46 tok
Claude BPE
~49 tok
Llama / DeepSeek
~51 tok

Hybrid Prompt Routing Cascade Simulator

Route routine queries to a fast lightweight model ($0.15/1M) and escalate only complex reasoning turns to Granite 3.3 8B:

Cascaded Monthly Bill:$13.50/mo
This model is already priced at or below the fast router baseline.

Benchmark Scores & 6-Axis Capability Radar

Benchmark Encyclopedia
Coding (80)Reasoning (74)Knowledge (70)Speed (93)Context (75)Cost Value (98)
Granite 3.3 8B2026 Frontier Median
MMLU-Pro
69.5%
HumanEval
80%
Chatbot Arena Elo
1235pts

Strengths

  • complet Apache 2.0 commercial licensing backed par IBM intellectual property indemnification
  • Trained purely sur clean, legally vetted d'entreprise datasets
  • fonctionne effortlessly sur unique grand public GPUs ou CPU server instances

Limitations & Trade-offs

  • inférieur général codage et competition mathématiques ceiling que de pointe giants
  • texte-seulement interface sans visuel document ingestion

Editorial Assessment

le gold standard pour legally safe, d'entreprise-vetted open source AI.

Best for: d'entreprise conformité automatisation, internal d'entreprise documentation, et juridique données revue

Frequently Asked Questions about Granite 3.3 8B

How much does the Granite 3.3 8B API cost per 1M tokens?+

Granite 3.3 8B by IBM is priced at $0 per 1M input tokens and $0 per 1M output tokens. With prompt caching enabled, cached input tokens cost $0 per 1M tokens, and asynchronous Batch API requests receive a 0% discount.

Should I use a $20/month subscription or the Granite 3.3 8B pay-as-you-go API?+

A flat $20/month consumer subscription is predictable for daily interactive chat and manual coding. However, if you are building software, running automated workflows, or sending low-to-moderate volume with prompt caching enabled, the pay-as-you-go API is typically far more cost-effective and offers higher rate limits without manual UI caps.

How many words and pages fit in Granite 3.3 8B's context window?+

Granite 3.3 8B features a 128K tokens context window, which equals approximately 96,000 English words or ~256 standard single-spaced pages in a single prompt. Its maximum output generation per turn is 8,192 tokens.

Can I run Granite 3.3 8B locally on my own GPU (Open Weights)?+

Yes, Granite 3.3 8B (8B) releases open weights that can be self-hosted locally or on private cloud GPUs using vLLM, Ollama, SGLang, or llama.cpp.

Does IBM train on data sent to the Granite 3.3 8B API, and is commercial use allowed?+

100% Isolated when self-hosted on private GPUs or VPC. License tier: Open-Weights Research & Commercial License. Full commercial ownership of generated outputs. Supported deployment channels include: Self-Hosted GPU (vLLM / Ollama), Private VPC, or Managed Serverless API.

How does Granite 3.3 8B perform on coding and reasoning benchmarks?+

Granite 3.3 8B achieves a composite Intelligence Index of 74/100, scoring N/A% on SWE-bench Verified, N/A% on GPQA Diamond, 69.5% on MMLU-Pro, and 1235 pts on Chatbot Arena Elo.

What is Granite 3.3 8B best used for?+

Granite 3.3 8B is best suited for: d'entreprise conformité automatisation, internal d'entreprise documentation, et juridique données revue. Assessment: le gold standard pour legally safe, d'entreprise-vetted open source AI.

Les scores de benchmarks, tarifs par token et limites évoluent rapidement. Vérifiez toujours les spécifications actuelles sur la documentation officielle du fournisseur.

Sources: IBM Granite Research & Hugging Face Hub↗