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Granite 3

IBM's enterprise open-weights LLM family.

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Best for

Best for IBM-shop enterprises needing legal indemnification on AI output.

At a glance

Pricing
open-source
Setup time
1 hour
Learning curve
moderate
Last verified
5/26/2026

What we love

  • ✓IBM legal indemnification
  • ✓Strong enterprise governance
  • ✓Solid on business tasks

Where it falls short

  • −Behind frontier general models
  • −Best inside watsonx
  • −Less community traction

Pricing

✓ Pricing verified Jun 7, 2026

2 tiers

Open-source

$0

perpetual

  • ✓Apache 2.0

watsonx

Usage

per token

  • ✓Enterprise SLA
  • ✓Indemnification

Overview

Granite 3 is IBM's open-weights LLM family — focused on enterprise compliance, indemnification, and code/business use cases. Apache 2.0 with IP indemnification through IBM watsonx.

Key features

  • ●2B / 8B variants
  • ●Apache 2.0 license
  • ●IBM IP indemnification
  • ●Code + business tuned
  • ●watsonx integration

Best use cases

Enterprise-compliant inference

Run an LLM with corporate IP indemnification for regulated industries.

watsonx-grounded RAG

Build RAG on watsonx-hosted Granite with full audit trail.

Integrations

IBM watsonx
Hugging Face
Ollama
vLLM

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