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Benchmark suiteUpdated May 27, 2026

Granite 4.1 8b.

A model-level benchmark profile for Granite 4.1 8b, combining Arena category ranks, suite indexes, commercial price and speed data, SWE-bench status, and lab context.

IBM lab page

Lab

IBM

Open weights

Coverage

44%

4 of 9 tracked signals

Best Arena rank

#76

WebDev Arena

Best suite

#69

Value / 51

OverviewFull public trackerValuePerformance for the moneyCodingCode and SWE-bench signalsAgentsTool and workflow readinessReasoningKnowledge and reasoning signalsContextDocument and retrieval signalsLabsProvider comparisons

Model profile

Benchmark signal map.

This view treats missing values as coverage gaps, then puts every available score, rank, cost, and speed signal into the same visual hierarchy.

Analyst view

Granite 4.1 8b is strongest on value.

44% coverage

Its best composite result is rank #69 in the value view, with a 51 value index. The strongest raw Arena signal is WebDev Arena at rank #76 with 1,725 public votes.

Best current lane

Value

#69 / 51 value index

Strongest raw signal

Code

#76, 1202 score

Commercial posture

$0.063

0.38s first token / 133 tok/s

Coverage gaps

Text ArenaVision ArenaSearch ArenaDocument ArenaSWE-bench

Profile completeness

4 of 9 signals matched

44%

Arena categories

1/5

Code

Commercial match

Live

Granite 4.1 8B

SWE-bench

Not listed

No confident software benchmark row

Raw identifier

granite-4.1-8b

Open weights

Performance cockpit

Public benchmark scores

Arena rows show score, public rank, confidence interval, vote count, and publish date. Missing rows stay visible as coverage gaps.

Text Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

WebDev Arena

Arena category

1,202#76

1184-1220 CI

1,725 votes

May 25, 2026

Arena public leaderboard dataset

Vision Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

Search Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

Document Arena

Arena category

Not listed

No confident public Arena row for this category.

Coverage gap

SWE-bench Verified

Software issue resolution

Not listed

No confident SWE-bench row matched to this model.

Coverage gap

Cost and speed

Commercial profile

Price, latency, and throughput are only shown when a confident commercial source row is matched.

Blended price

$0.063

USD / 1M tokens

Input price

$0.050

USD / 1M input tokens

Output price

$0.100

USD / 1M output tokens

Latency

0.38s

Median time to first token

Output speed

133 tok/s

Median generation speed

Matched source row

Granite 4.1 8B

Suite position

Composite ranks by benchmark lens.

These views combine available public signals into purpose-specific indexes. A missing card means the model lacks enough source coverage for that lens.

Value

Quality, price, latency, and output speed

#6951

value index

blended / 1M tokens$0.063
time to first token0.38s
output speed133 tok/s

Coding

Code Arena, SWE-bench, and output speed

#7821

coding index

Code Arena rank #761,202
No confident matchNot listed
output speed133 tok/s

Agents

Search, documents, code, and latency

#10656

agent proxy

Search ArenaNot listed
Docs ArenaNot listed
latency0.38s

Reasoning

Text, documents, vision, and mode signal

Not listed

Not enough matched source rows for this composite view.

Long context

Document, search, and text benchmark proxy

Not listed

Not enough matched source rows for this composite view.