Granite-3.1-8B-Instruct

IBM · released 2024-12-01 · Apache-2.0 license

Granite-3.1-8B-Instruct is IBM's Dec-2024 8B Apache-2.0 long-context enterprise model with solid instruction-following (IFEval 72.1) and 12-language support.

Key specs

TypeLocal open-weight
Parameters8.17B total
Architecturegranite
Context window131K tokens
Knowledge cutoff
Modalitiestext
Recommended backends
Minimum viable rig

Benchmark scores

GPQA Diamond
SWE-bench Verified
AIME
MMLU-Pro
BFCL v3 (tool use)
Composite score7.21
Community ratingNo reviews yet

VRAM & disk per quantization

QuantVRAMDiskRAMContext
Q4_K_M6.2 GB4.7 GB131K

Strengths & weaknesses

Strengths: Solid instruction following (IFEval 72.1); 128K long-context, multilingual (12 languages); Apache-2.0, enterprise focus

Weaknesses: Modest reasoning/math at hard levels; Outclassed by 2025 small models