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Granite 4.0 Micro: price, performance and context

Open Granite 4.0 Micro by IBM costs $0.017 per 1M input and $0.112 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 131K tokens in one request (≈ 390 pages of text) and scores 5.1 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 207 of 212.

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Updated Oct 09, 2026, 17:39 UTC · ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro

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Key facts

Licence
Open weights: free to download and self-host
Input / 1M tokens
$0.017
Output / 1M tokens
$0.112
Context window
131K tokens
Max. output
117.9K tokens
Performance index
5.1 points · rank 207 of 212
Coding index
n/a
Agentic index
n/a
Cost at your usage
$0.045 / month
Knowledge cutoff
n/a
In the catalog since
Oct 20, 2025
Capabilities
Text

What do you get for $10.00?

Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.

TaskCost per taskFor $10.00
Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer$0.00164,000
Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out$0.00204,000
Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary$0.0089,000
Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code$0.0049,000
Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go$0.0025,200

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