The cheapest IBM model is Granite 4.0 Micro at $0.017 per million input tokens. Granite 4.1 8B ($0.050) is next.
AI models ranked by input token price. The most affordable large language model APIs, from budget open-weight models to discounted frontier models.
The cheapest IBM model is Granite 4.0 Micro at $0.017 per million input tokens. Granite 4.1 8B ($0.050) is next.
Granite 4.1 8B ($0.050) is the closest alternative on this metric. See the full ranking above for the tradeoffs.
modelgrep tracks 2 IBM models with live benchmarks, speed, latency and per-provider pricing, led on intelligence by Granite 4.1 8B. 2 of them qualify for this ranking.