Granite-4.1-3B

IBM · released 2026-04-01 · Apache-2.0 license

Granite-4.1-3B is IBM's 3B dense Apache-2.0 instruct model with strong instruction-following (IFEval 82.3) and tool calling (BFCL 60.8) for its size, plus MMLU-Pro 49.8.

Key specs

TypeLocal open-weight
Parameters3.4B total
Architecturegranite
Context window131K tokens
Knowledge cutoff
Modalitiestext
Recommended backends
Minimum viable rig

Benchmark scores

GPQA Diamond31.7%
SWE-bench Verified
AIME
MMLU-Pro49.83%
BFCL v3 (tool use)60.8%
Composite score5.2
Community ratingNo reviews yet

VRAM & disk per quantization

QuantVRAMDiskRAMContext
Q4_K_M3.5 GB2 GB131K

Strengths & weaknesses

Strengths: Strong IFEval (82.3) and tool calling (BFCL 60.8) for a 3B; Solid MMLU-Pro 49.8 at small scale; 131K context; Apache-2.0

Weaknesses: GPQA 31.7 limited at 3B; Sparse parametric factual knowledge