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.

IBM comparisons

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ComparisonSample Cost WinnerLarger ContextNewest Release
Gemma 4 26B A4B vs Granite 4.1 8BGranite 4.1 8BGemma 4 26B A4B
Gemma 4 31B (free) vs Granite 4.1 8BGemma 4 31B (free)Gemma 4 31B (free)
Kimi K2.6 vs Granite 4.1 8BGranite 4.1 8BKimi K2.6
Qwen3.6 35B A3B vs Granite 4.1 8BGranite 4.1 8BQwen3.6 35B A3B

Cross-Provider Alternatives

Open alternatives hub

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

AlternativeProviderSample CostInput / 1MOutput / 1MContext
🔥Owl AlphaOpenRouter$0$0$01.05M
New🔥Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)NVIDIA$0$0$01M
🔥Laguna M.1 (free)Poolside$0$0$0262.14K
Nemotron 3 Super (free)NVIDIA$0$0$01M
gpt-oss-120b (free)OpenAI$0$0$0131.07K
Laguna XS.2 (free)Poolside$0$0$0262.14K

IBM model catalog

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ModelPromptOutputContextPopularity
Granite 4.1 8B$0.05$0.1131.07K#156
Granite 4.0 Micro$0.017$0.112131K#225