Granite 3.3 8B Instruct is IBM's language model with a 8K context window and up to 8K output tokens, available from 2 providers, starting at $0.03 / 1M input and $0.2 / 1M output. IBM's 8B-parameter Granite 3.3 instruction model offering improved reasoning and enterprise task performance in a mid-size open-weight package.
Specifications
Canonical IDibm-granite-3-3-8b-instruct
TypeLanguage
StatusActive
CreatorIBMIBM
Providers
Context Window8K tokens
Max Output8K tokens
Input ModalitiesText
Output ModalitiesText
Parameters8B
Benchmarks
Intelligence Index
#536
Math Index
#246
MMLU-Pro
#299
GPQA
#473
HLE
#448
LiveCodeBench
#293
AIME
#153
IFBench
#405
Time to First Token
#558
SciCode
#477
MATH-500
#149
AIME 2025
#246
LCR
#410
TerminalBench Hard
#386
TAU2
#388
Output TPS
#238

Capabilities

Input1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities2/13
Reasoning·
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling
Parallel Function Calling
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·

Pricing by Provider

US Dollar ($)
Per 1M tokens
ProviderStandard
Input
$ / 1M
Output
$ / 1M
IBM watsonx logo
IBM watsonx
watsonx/ibm/granite-3-3-8b-instruct
$0.2$0.2
Replicate logo
Replicate
replicate/ibm-granite/granite-3.3-8b-instruct
$0.03$0.25

Cost Calculator

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Cheapest Instances to Run It

Cloud GPU instances that can host Granite 3.3 8B Instruct, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 19 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.

All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance
Cloud
GPU
VRAM
Price
Cheapest region
g6.xlargeAWSL422 GB$0.805/hr
Standard_NV16as_v4AzureAMD Radeon Instinct MI2532 GB$0.932/hr
g6.2xlargeAWSL422 GB$0.978/hr
7 more instances can run Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
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Versions

VersionReleasedContextInput / 1MOutput / 1MStatus
Granite 4.2 8B131K$0.060$0.150Available
Granite 4.1 8B131K$0.050$0.100Deprecating
Granite 4 Micro H131K$0.017$0.112Available
Granite 4.2 30B131KAvailable
Granite 4.2 3B131KAvailable
Granite 4.1 30BAvailable
Granite 4 Small H131K$0.064$0.265Available
Granite 4.1 3BAvailable
Granite 4 Nano 1B HAvailable
Granite 4 MicroAvailable
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct8K$0.030$0.200Current

Model IDs

granite-3-3-8b-instruct
ibm-granite-3-3-8b-instruct
replicate/ibm-granite/granite-3.3-8b-instruct
watsonx/ibm/granite-3-3-8b-instruct