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.

Unified ELO 1491 ± 1, rank #731 of 1392 rated models, from 55 benchmark results.

Strongest benchmark results

BenchmarkScoreMetricPercentile
SpeechMap Compliance84% Requests Completed81.4
AA Omniscience - Software Engineering (SWE) - Kotlin18Accuracy (%)55.3
AA Omniscience - Software Engineering (SWE) - PHP22Accuracy (%)55.3
BLXBench64.6Score (self-reported)54.2
AA Omniscience - Software Engineering (SWE) - Swift32Accuracy (%)51.2
Chatbot Arena (Text - Math)1320Arena Score44.8
AA Omniscience - Software Engineering (SWE) - Rust44Accuracy (%)43
Chatbot Arena (Text - Chinese)1358Arena Score42.6
Chatbot Arena (Text - English)1331Arena Score37.6
Chatbot Arena (Text - Hard Prompts)1321Arena Score37.2
Chatbot Arena (Text - Coding)1354Arena Score36.4
AA Omniscience - Software Engineering (SWE) - HTML26Accuracy (%)36

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