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Granite 4.0 Micro

  • Released
  • Open weights
  • Apache 2.0
Intelligence Index

Standard setting

5.1
Estimated · Artificial Analysis v4.3.2
API price from
≈ $0.02 in / ≈ $0.11 out / 1M tokOpenRouter · Cloudflare
Context window
128K tok

Performance profile

ReasoningRank #102 of 107
33.6%
GPQA Diamond

Capabilities

Context window

Modalities

Measured setting

Reasoning trade-offs

Source (opens in a new tab)
Intelligence Index v4.3.2
StandardEstimated
Intelligence Index
5.1

Pricing & access

API route
OpenRouter · CloudflareAPI
Tier & contextStandard

USD per 1M tokens

Input
$0.017
Output
$0.112

Run locally

GGUF
Context
Estimated memory

~4.6 GiB

RAM + VRAM

Estimate assumptions

One text chat at the selected context, with a 16-bit cache and app allowance. Operating system and image processing are extra; optimized caches can use less.

16 GiB RAMwithout GPU offload

Memory budgetOne text chat
Weights
2 GiB
Context cache
0.6 GiB16-bit cache
App allowance
2 GiB
Download
2.1 GB
Disk space
~8 GB
Get GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Set up in Ollama · Q4_K_M · 8K context

Save the following as Modelfile. The context matches the estimate above.

FROM hf.co/lmstudio-community/granite-4.0-micro-GGUF:Q4_K_M
PARAMETER num_ctx 8192

Then run these commands in your terminal:

ollama create llmcurrent-local -f Modelfile
ollama run llmcurrent-local

Ollama import instructions (opens in a new tab) · For LM Studio or Jan, open the app’s model search, enter lmstudio-community/granite-4.0-micro-GGUF, choose Q4_K_M, and set context to 8,192 tokens in the app’s model settings. Software links above open each app’s setup guide.

Benchmarks

Full leaderboardSource (opens in a new tab)

Humanity’s Last Exam

Frontier reasoning

Granite 4.0 Micro · Standard#109 of 126

  1. 1Claude Opus 5.5Max61.4%
  2. 2Claude Fable 5.1Max59.1%
  3. 3Gemini 4 ArgonHigh57.1%
  4. 106Ministral 3 3BStandard5.4%
  5. 106K2 Horizon 0.9BReasoning5.4%
  6. 108Tiny Aya GlobalStandard5.2%
  7. 109Granite 4.0 MicroStandard5.0%
  8. 110Phi-4 Multimodal InstructStandard5.0%
  9. 111Llama 4 MaverickStandard4.9%
  10. 112NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 9B V2Reasoning4.9%

Peers use their best measured result on this benchmark.