Granite 4.1 8B: benchmark results

IBM's Apache-2.0 8B dense Granite 4.1 instruct model (April 2026) with 512K context, matching the prior 32B MoE Granite 4.0-H-Small. Provider: IBM. Released 2026-04-29. Access: Open.

Aggregate Rating 1461 ± 20, rank #930 of 1656 rated models, from 121 benchmark results.

Strongest benchmark results

BenchmarkScoreMetricPercentile
SpeechMap Compliance84% Requests Completed82.2
AA Omniscience - Software Engineering (SWE) - Kotlin18Accuracy (%)55.3
AA Omniscience - Software Engineering (SWE) - PHP22Accuracy (%)55.3
BLXBench64.6Score (imported)54.2
AA Omniscience - Software Engineering (SWE) - Swift32Accuracy (%)51.2
Chatbot Arena (Text - Chinese)1367Arena Score43.1
AA Omniscience - Software Engineering (SWE) - Rust44Accuracy (%)43
Chatbot Arena (Text - Math)1317Arena Score42.2
Chatbot Arena (Text - Mathematical)1325Arena Score41.4
Chatbot Arena (Text - Legal & Government)1345Arena Score40.2
Chatbot Arena (Text - Software & IT Services)1352Arena Score38.9
Chatbot Arena (Text - Expert)1338Arena Score37.3

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