Granite 4.0 H Micro

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Capability profile

Operator guidance

Route here for cost-, latency-, or memory-bound tasks that are mostly instruction-following, tool-calling, or retrieval-grounded rather than open-ended reasoning. For anything needing real analytical depth, step up to a larger Granite 4.0 tier (H Small) or a general mid-size model. Its differentiators versus other cheap small models are the Mamba-2 hybrid efficiency, the strong function-calling story for its size, and IBM's enterprise provenance guarantees.

Use cases

• Edge / on-device / local-first deployments where memory and latency are hard constraints
• High-volume function-calling and RAG pipelines where a small, cheap, instruction-tuned model is sufficient
• Enterprise settings that need Apache-2.0 licensing, signed checkpoints, and ISO 42001 provenance
• The cheap tier in a cascade, handling routing / extraction / tool-dispatch before a larger model

Limitations

• 3B parameters — weak on hard reasoning; not for analysis-heavy work
• No IBM first-party public per-token API (watsonx.ai is enterprise-platform pricing); this entry is hosted via OpenRouter (see registry note)
• Served context (~131K) is lower than the 512K training / 128K eval figures IBM cites
• Capability ratings are qualitative from IBM's announcements; the benchmark claims are IBM-reported

Citations

• IBM Granite 4.0: hyper-efficient, high performance hybrid models for enterprise (IBM announcement)
• Granite 4.0 model docs (IBM)
• Granite 4.0 H Micro on OpenRouter (host + pricing)