Granite Speech 4.1 2B
Granite Speech 4.1 2B is IBM's speech to text model. A compact 2B-parameter automatic speech recognition model from IBM's Granite series, designed for efficient audio transcription tasks.
| Specifications | |
|---|---|
ibm-granite-speech-4-1-2b | |
| Speech to Text | |
| Active | |
| IBM | |
| Audio | |
| Text | |
| 2B | |
Capabilities
Input1/5
Text·
Image·
Audio✓
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities0/13
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·
Cheapest Instances to Run It
Cloud GPU instances that can host Granite Speech 4.1 2B, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 5 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard_NV4as_v4 |  Azure | AMD Radeon Instinct MI25 | 16 GB | $0.233/hr | ||
| g4ad.xlarge |  AWS | Radeon Pro V520 | 8 GB | $0.379/hr | ||
| g5g.xlarge | AWS | T4g | 16 GB | $0.420/hr | ||
Versions
| Version | Released | Context | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granite 4.1 8B | 131K | $0.050 | $0.100 | Available | |
| Granite 4 Micro H | 131K | $0.017 | $0.112 | Available | |
| Granite Speech 4.1 2B | — | — | — | — | Current |
| Granite 4.1 30B | — | — | — | — | Available |
| Granite 4 Small H | — | 20K | $0.060 | $0.250 | Available |
| Granite 4.1 3B | — | — | — | — | Available |
| Granite 4 Nano 1B H | — | — | — | — | Available |
| Granite 4 Micro | — | — | — | — | Available |
| Granite 4 Nano 1B | — | — | — | — | Available |
| Granite 4 350M | — | — | — | — | Available |
| Granite 4 350M H | — | — | — | — | Available |