IBM LLM API Models & Pricing

Browse IBM LLM API models with normalized prompt pricing, output pricing, context windows, release dates, and popularity signals.

2Models tracked
2Priced models
0Popular models
0Latest releases

Provider shortlist

Use IBM as a model-level shortlist, not a single default choice.

Start from the cost, context, and popularity picks below, then open the model pages or head-to-head comparisons before choosing an API.

Cost pick Granite 4.0 Micro $0.07 sample workload
Context pick Granite 4.1 8B 131.07K context window
Popular pick No current pick No popular models are available.
When to avoid Verify model fit Do not choose by provider name alone. Compare model-level input price, output price, context window, release timing, and current availability before production use.

IBM comparisons

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ComparisonSample Cost WinnerLarger ContextNewest Release
Aion-3.0 vs Granite 4.1 8BGranite 4.1 8BTie
Aion-3.0-Mini vs Granite 4.1 8BGranite 4.1 8BTie
Claude Fable 5 (batch) vs Granite 4.1 8BGranite 4.1 8BClaude Fable 5 (batch)
Claude Fable 5 vs Granite 4.1 8BGranite 4.1 8BClaude Fable 5
Claude Fable Latest vs Granite 4.1 8BGranite 4.1 8BClaude Fable Latest
Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast) vs Granite 4.1 8BGranite 4.1 8BClaude Opus 4.7 (Fast)
Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) vs Granite 4.1 8BGranite 4.1 8BClaude Opus 4.8 (batch)
Claude Opus 4.8 (Fast) vs Granite 4.1 8BGranite 4.1 8BClaude Opus 4.8 (Fast)

Cross-Provider Alternatives

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Use this shortlist when IBM is not a hard requirement and your first constraint is workload cost.

AlternativeProviderSample CostInput / 1MOutput / 1MContext
New🔥Ox Alphastealth$0$0$01.05M
🔥Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)NVIDIA$0$0$01M
🔥Laguna S 2.1 (free)Poolside$0$0$0262.14K
New🔥Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free)NVIDIA$0$0$01M
NewDots3-Note Preview (free)Dots Studio$0$0$0512K
NewLFM2.5-2.6B (free)LiquidAI$0$0$065.54K

IBM model catalog

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ModelPromptOutputContextPopularity
Granite 4.1 8B$0.05$0.1131.07K
Granite 4.0 Micro$0.017$0.112131K