Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
Open Weights
IBM
IBM's open 8B enterprise language model (2025), trained for general language, math, coding, and instruction following with a 128K context window. Released under Apache 2.0, the Granite family targets governed, on-prem enterprise deployments with strong tool use and RAG.
Strengths
- Open (Apache 2.0) enterprise model for governed deployments
- 128K context window
- Strong general language, math, coding, and instruction following
- Tool use and RAG for enterprise workflows
- 8B runs efficiently on modest hardware
Caveats
- 8B ceiling below frontier models on the hardest tasks
- Text-only (no vision or audio input)
- Enterprise focus over consumer-style chat polish
- Vendor
- IBM
- Context Window
- 131,072 tokens
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Release Date
- 2025-04-16
- Modalities
- text
Capabilities
Vision
Audio
Video
Tool Use
Resources
Pricing
Open weights under Apache 2.0 - free to self-host; also on watsonx.ai and major clouds. 8B runs on modest hardware.