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
#550
Math Index
#246
MMLU-Pro
#299
GPQA
#474
HLE
#463
LiveCodeBench
#293
AIME
#153
IFBench
#405
Time to First Token
#559
SciCode
#491
MATH-500
#149
AIME 2025
#246
LCR
#425
TerminalBench Hard
#386
TAU2
#388
Output TPS
#212

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
g2-standard-4GCPnvidia-l424 GB$0.705/hr
g6.xlargeAWSL422 GB$0.805/hr
g2-standard-8GCPnvidia-l424 GB$0.851/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$0.100Deprecated
Granite 4 Micro H131K$0.017$0.112Available
Granite 4.2 30B—131K——Available
Granite 4.2 3B—131K——Available
Granite 4.1 30B————Available
Granite 4 Small H—131K$0.064$0.265Available
Granite 4.1 3B————Available
Granite 4 Nano 1B H————Available
Granite 4 Micro————Available
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct—8K$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