IBM Granite 4.0 Micro

IBM

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Capabilities

ToolsCodeStructured OutputMultilingual

Strengths

Highest transparency score ever (FMTI 95)
Apache 2.0 — fully open
Full training data documentation
Enterprise audit trails
Part of Granite family (vision, code, guardian variants available)
MATH500 competitive with 24B models despite 8B size
Strong RAG with LoRA adapters

Weaknesses

Not frontier quality
No vision in base (separate Granite Vision models available)
Smaller ecosystem

Pricing

Input / 1M tokens

$0.017

Output / 1M tokens

$0.11

Context window

131k

Transparency

Open weights

10.0 / 10

Open training data

10.0 / 10

Open methodology

10.0 / 10

Licence openness

10.0 / 10

Provider disclosure

10.0 / 10

FMTI company score

950.0 / 10

Composite:10.0 / 10

FMTI 95/100 — highest ever. Perfect 100 on 10/14 dimensions. Full training data documentation. Apache 2.0.

Sustainability

Inference energy

7.0 / 10

Training footprint

7.0 / 10

Provider infrastructure

5.5 / 10

Composite:6.5 / 10

Published training compute/energy data. Smaller models run on consumer hardware. FMTI 95 includes disclosure on compute infrastructure.

Task Fitness

Code

78%

Vision

Analyse

72%

Extract

80%

Generate

68%

Summarise

72%

Translate

70%

Conversation

68%