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IBM: Granite 4.1 8B vs Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

IIBM: Granite 4.1 8Bibm-granite/granite-4.1-8bVSMMeta: Llama 3.1 8B Instructmeta-llama/llama-3.1-8b-instruct

Meta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct wins on more metrics (4 of 7), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricIBM: Granite 4.1 8BMeta: Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Intelligence Index12.4✓11.8
Coding Index7.3✓4.9
GPQA Diamond43%✓26%
Design Arena Elo——
Speed (tokens/sec)114161✓
Latency158ms146ms✓
Input price /M$0.050$0.020✓
Output price /M$0.100$0.030✓
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