The best open-weight IBM model is Granite 4.1 8B (12.4 intelligence) — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable. Granite 4.0 Micro (7.7) is next.
The best open-weight AI models — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable — ranked by intelligence. Open-source alternatives to proprietary frontier models.
The best open-weight IBM model is Granite 4.1 8B (12.4 intelligence) — downloadable from Hugging Face and self-hostable. Granite 4.0 Micro (7.7) is next.
Granite 4.0 Micro (7.7) 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.