IBM publishes the Granite family of open-weight language, code, and speech models under permissive licenses, plus enterprise embedding and reranker variants tuned for retrieval-augmented generation.
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7
Open weight
7
API only
0
Avg score
62.5
Top benchmark
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Total HF downloads
320.6K
Context window
128K – 131K
First release
Apr 2025
Latest release
Oct 2026
Ranked by composite score across benchmarks, popularity, efficiency, and versatility.
| # | Model | Modality | Score | Params | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | audio | AA75.0 | — | Oct 2026 | |
| 2 | audio |
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Models with downloadable weights, ranked by composite score.
| # | Model | Modality | Score | Params | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | audio | AA75.0 | — | Oct 2026 | |
| 2 | audio |
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IBM ships 7 models that we track. Of those, 7 are open weight and 0 are accessed through their API.
It depends on the model. See the open-weight section above for models you can run locally, and the API-only section for closed models priced per token.
By composite score, Granite-Speech-5.0-470M-TurboCTC is currently the top IBM model in our directory. Composite score blends benchmarks, popularity, efficiency, and versatility.

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Benchmark data sourced from: Hugging Face, Arena.ai, Artificial Analysis.
| 2B |
| Mar 2026 |
| 3 | text | BB63.4 | 30.0B | Oct 2026 |
| 4 | text | BB60.7 | 8.8B | Oct 2026 |
| 5 | audio | BB59.8 | 2B | Oct 2026 |
| 6 | audio | BB57.7 | 3B | Apr 2025 |
| 7 | audio | CC54.4 | 9B | Apr 2025 |
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Composite grades across this provider’s catalog. Higher is better, blending benchmarks, popularity, and efficiency.
| 2B |
| Mar 2026 |
| 3 | text | BB63.4 | 30.0B | Oct 2026 |
| 4 | text | BB60.7 | 8.8B | Oct 2026 |
| 5 | audio | BB59.8 | 2B | Oct 2026 |
| 6 | audio | BB57.7 | 3B | Apr 2025 |
| 7 | audio | CC54.4 | 9B | Apr 2025 |