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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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3
Open weight
3
API only
0
Avg score
57.1
Top benchmark
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Total HF downloads
135.1K
First release
Apr 2025
Latest release
Mar 2026
Ranked by composite score across benchmarks, popularity, efficiency, and versatility.
| # | Model | Modality | Score | Params | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | audio | BB60.3 | 2B | Mar 2026 | |
| 2 |
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Models with downloadable weights, ranked by composite score.
| # | Model | Modality | Score | Params | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | audio | BB60.3 | 2B | Mar 2026 | |
| 2 |
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IBM ships 3 models that we track. Of those, 3 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 4.0 1B Speech is currently the top IBM model in our directory. Composite score blends benchmarks, popularity, efficiency, and versatility.
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BB56.8 |
| 3B |
| Apr 2025 |
| 3 | audio | CC54.1 | 9B | Apr 2025 |
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Composite grades across this provider’s catalog. Higher is better, blending benchmarks, popularity, and efficiency.
BB56.8 |
| 3B |
| Apr 2025 |
| 3 | audio | CC54.1 | 9B | Apr 2025 |
