Granite 3.3 8B Instruct Pricing

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    As of August 25, 2026, Granite 3.3 8B Instruct API pricing is $0.50 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens. A typical 100K-in / 20K-out request costs $0.06. Source: https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing

    Source: AnotherWrapper LLM pricing (https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing)

    Updated August 25, 2026128K context$1.00 blended / 1M

    Input $/M

    $0.50

    Output $/M

    $0.50

    Blended / 1M

    $1.00

    100K / 20K request

    $0.06

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    Quality vs price

    IFEval against blended input+output $/M. Log price. Granite 3.3 8B Instruct is the green point.

    Granite 3.3 8B Instruct specs

    Context Window128K
    Max Output8.2K tokens
    Release Date2025-04-16
    Knowledge Cutoff2024-04-01
    LicenseOpen Source
    Throughput50 tok/s

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    Granite 3.3 8B Instruct FAQ

    How much does Granite 3.3 8B Instruct cost per million tokens?

    As of August 25, 2026, Granite 3.3 8B Instruct IBM API pricing is $0.50 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens. Input tokens are the prompt you send; output tokens are the completion. Long answers therefore cost more than short ones even when the prompt stays the same. Source: https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing

    What is the blended API cost for Granite 3.3 8B Instruct?

    On this page the blended Granite 3.3 8B Instruct API cost is $1.00 for 1 million input tokens plus 1 million output tokens. That 1:1 mix is the comparison scale used across the LLM pricing table. A 3:1 mix (three million input tokens per one million output tokens), which some calculators use, would be about $2.00.

    How much does a typical Granite 3.3 8B Instruct request cost?

    A typical Granite 3.3 8B Instruct API request with 100K input tokens and 20K output tokens costs about $0.06 at current rates as of August 25, 2026. Multiply that by daily or monthly volume to estimate spend. Caching, batch APIs, and volume discounts from IBM can bring the real invoice lower than the public list rate at https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing.

    What is the context window for Granite 3.3 8B Instruct?

    Granite 3.3 8B Instruct supports a 128K token context window and can generate up to 8K output tokens per request. The context window is the total prompt plus conversation history the model can see in one call. Larger windows cost more when you fill them, because every input token is billed per million tokens.

    Is Granite 3.3 8B Instruct open source?

    Yes. Granite 3.3 8B Instruct is an open-weight model by IBM. You can download the weights and self-host, or pay IBM's hosted API and skip GPU ops. Hosted API pricing on this page is the public per-million-token rate, not the electricity cost of running the weights yourself.

    What benchmarks does Granite 3.3 8B Instruct perform well on?

    Granite 3.3 8B Instruct currently reports IFEval 74.8%, AIME 2024 81.2%, MATH 500 69.0%. See the performance table for the full eval set. Use those scores with the token prices above when you are choosing between a cheaper LLM and a frontier model. GPQA, SWE-bench, and HLE are the evals people usually compare first.

    Is Granite 3.3 8B Instruct good for coding?

    Granite 3.3 8B Instruct scores 89.7% on HumanEval. Pair that score with IBM API pricing on this page: a slightly worse SWE-bench model can still win if it is much cheaper per million tokens. Open the SWE-bench or coding leaderboard from the sidebar for the full ranking, then jump into an LLM comparison against a coding specialist.

    What is the knowledge cutoff for Granite 3.3 8B Instruct?

    Granite 3.3 8B Instruct has a published knowledge cutoff of 2024-04-01. Facts after that date are not guaranteed to be in the weights. For current events you still need retrieval or tools, which adds input tokens and therefore API cost per million tokens.

    How do I compare Granite 3.3 8B Instruct with another LLM?

    Use the Compare picker on this page to start an LLM comparison. Search by model or provider, pick a second model, and AnotherWrapper opens a dedicated Granite 3.3 8B Instruct vs page with per-million-token prices, blended 1M-in / 1M-out cost, context window, throughput, and benchmarks. You can also open any model from the sidebar, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort the full index.

    What are the cheapest alternatives to Granite 3.3 8B Instruct?

    The cheapest LLM alternative depends on whether you optimize for blended token cost, coding evals, or context window. Start with the popular matchups on this page, then sort the LLM pricing table by blended cost to see which hosted APIs undercut Granite 3.3 8B Instruct. Open-weight models can be cheaper still if you self-host, but that is not the same as IBM API pricing on this page.

    How do I use Granite 3.3 8B Instruct in my application?

    Granite 3.3 8B Instruct is called through IBM's API with an API key. Bill against input and output tokens separately; cache or shorten prompts if spend is high. If you are shipping a full product, AnotherWrapper includes pre-built API routes and templates for IBM and 5+ other providers with auth, payments, and deployment already configured.

    How accurate is this Granite 3.3 8B Instruct pricing data?

    This Granite 3.3 8B Instruct page tracks the latest published IBM API pricing from IBM, quoted per million tokens. List rates can differ from invoices because of prompt caching, batch discounts, committed-use tiers, and private contracts. Official rate sheet: https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing. Benchmark scores come from official publications and independent evals, not from a private lab run by AnotherWrapper.

    How fast is Granite 3.3 8B Instruct?

    Granite 3.3 8B Instruct has a measured throughput of about 50 tokens per second (tok/s). Throughput is how fast completions stream once the model starts generating; time-to-first-token can still lag under load. Faster APIs matter when you are building chat or agents, even if the per-million-token price is the same.

    About Granite 3.3 8B Instruct API pricing

    Granite 3.3 8B Instruct is a open-source model from IBM. Current API pricing is $0.50 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, with a 128K token context window. A blended 1M-in / 1M-out workload costs $1.00.

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