MODEL COMPARE

Granite 4.0 Micro vs Granite 4.1 8B: Pricing, Capabilities and Benchmarks

Compare Granite 4.0 Micro and Granite 4.1 8B across context window, API pricing, modalities, tool use and recommended use cases.

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Model AModel B

DECISION SUMMARY

Decision summary

Recommendations are conditional. Unknown values never count as a loss, and missing comparable benchmarks produce no winner.

Insufficient data

Evidence

comparable_coding_benchmark_missing

No same-source coding benchmark is attached to both model versions.

Insufficient data

Evidence

comparable_agent_benchmark_missing

Capabilities are listed, but a comparable agent benchmark is missing.

Granite 4.1 8B

Evidence

context_window_larger

Granite 4.0 Micro=131000; Granite 4.1 8B=131072

Granite 4.0 Micro

Evidence

same_provider_monthly_cost_lower

Granite 4.0 Micro=0.039400000000000004; Granite 4.1 8B=0.07; input=1000000; cached_input=0; output=200000; provider=OpenRouter

Insufficient data

Evidence

open_weights_support

Granite 4.0 Micro=unknown; Granite 4.1 8B=unknown

MODEL ATTRIBUTES

Source scope: Provider endpoint

Show differences only

Attribute	Granite 4.0 Micro	Granite 4.1 8B	Winner
Context window`context_window_larger`Provider endpoint	131K	131K	Granite 4.1 8B
Maximum output`max_output_larger`Provider endpoint	131K	131K	Granite 4.1 8B
Input modalities`input_modalities_differ`Provider endpoint	Text	Text	Insufficient data
Output modalities`output_modalities_differ`Provider endpoint	Text	Text	Insufficient data
Tool calling`tool_calling_support`Provider endpoint	Not supported	Supported	Granite 4.1 8B
Structured output`structured_output_support`Provider endpoint	Supported	Supported	Tie
Reasoning`reasoning_support`Model	Unknown	Unknown	Insufficient data
Open weights`open_weights_support`Model	Unknown	Unknown	Insufficient data
Input price per 1M tokens`input_price_lower`Provider endpoint	$0.017	$0.05	Granite 4.0 Micro
Output price per 1M tokens`output_price_lower`Provider endpoint	$0.112	$0.10	Granite 4.1 8B

USAGE ESTIMATOR

Estimate token charges for the selected provider endpoints. Image, audio, request and web-search charges are not included.

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Monthly input tokensMonthly output tokensCached input tokens

Granite 4.0 Micro$0.0394Estimated monthly cost

Granite 4.1 8B$0.07Estimated monthly cost