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

2Popular 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 Granite 4.1 8B #156 popularity signal

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.

Cheapest IBM models

Granite 4.0 Micro — $0.07 sample workload
Granite 4.1 8B — $0.1 sample workload

Largest context windows

Granite 4.1 8B — 131.07K
Granite 4.0 Micro — 131K

IBM comparisons

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Comparison	Sample Cost Winner	Larger Context	Newest Release
Gemma 4 26B A4B vs Granite 4.1 8B	Granite 4.1 8B	Gemma 4 26B A4B	2026-04-30
Gemma 4 31B (free) vs Granite 4.1 8B	Gemma 4 31B (free)	Gemma 4 31B (free)	2026-04-30
Kimi K2.6 vs Granite 4.1 8B	Granite 4.1 8B	Kimi K2.6	2026-04-30
Qwen3.6 35B A3B vs Granite 4.1 8B	Granite 4.1 8B	Qwen3.6 35B A3B	2026-04-30

Cross-Provider Alternatives

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

Alternative	Provider	Sample Cost	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Context
🔥Owl Alpha	OpenRouter	$0	$0	$0	1.05M
New🔥Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)	NVIDIA	$0	$0	$0	1M
🔥Laguna M.1 (free)	Poolside	$0	$0	$0	262.14K
Nemotron 3 Super (free)	NVIDIA	$0	$0	$0	1M
gpt-oss-120b (free)	OpenAI	$0	$0	$0	131.07K
Laguna XS.2 (free)	Poolside	$0	$0	$0	262.14K

IBM model catalog

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Model	Prompt	Output	Context	Popularity
Granite 4.1 8B	$0.05	$0.1	131.07K	#156
Granite 4.0 Micro	$0.017	$0.112	131K	#225