Granite 3 8B Instruct API Pricing

Granite 3 8B Instruct pricing by provider

1 listing across 1 provider. Token prices are in US dollars per 1M tokens. The highlighted row is the price quoted above.

What Granite 3 8B Instruct costs in practice

1,000 requests with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each

Granite 3 8B Instruct features

• Function calling
• Parallel tool calls
• Structured output
• Image input
• Audio input
• Audio output
• Prompt caching

Use Granite 3 8B Instruct with LiteLLM

Call Granite 3 8B Instruct through the LiteLLM Python SDK, or put it behind the LiteLLM proxy and send OpenAI-format requests to /v1/chat/completions. LiteLLM tracks the cost of every request at these prices.

from litellm import completion

response = completion(
    model="watsonx/ibm/granite-3-8b-instruct",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)

model_list:
  - model_name: granite-3-8b-instruct
    litellm_params:
      model: watsonx/ibm/granite-3-8b-instruct
      # credentials: see the provider's LiteLLM docs page

curl http://0.0.0.0:4000/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-1234" \
  -d '{
    "model": "granite-3-8b-instruct",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
  }'

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• Granite 3.3 8B Instruct$0.03 / $0.25 per 1M tokens