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IBM: Granite-4.0-H-Small

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Granite-4.0-H-Small is a language model from IBM released on Oct 2, 2025. It reads text and writes text, with a 131K token context window and up to 131K tokens per reply.

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It costs $0.0636 per million input tokens and $0.265 per million output tokens.

It supports tool calling and structured JSON output, and its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.

Modalities
In / out price
$0.0636 / $0.265 per 1M
Context
131K
Max output
131K
Released
Oct 2, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
n/a
  • Tool calling
  • Structured output
  • Reasoning
  • Prompt caching
  • Open weights
  • Free to use

Granite-4.0-H-Small pricing

USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.

Input$0.0636 / 1M tokens
Output$0.265 / 1M tokens

What Granite-4.0-H-Small costs per month

Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.

Granite-4.0-H-Small per month
$7.55
Without caching
$7.55
Per request
$0.0003

Supported request parameters

What you can set when you call Granite-4.0-H-Small through an OpenAI compatible API.

  • Toolstools
  • Structured outputsstructured_outputs
  • Temperaturetemperature

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Granite-4.0-H-Small questions

How much does the Granite-4.0-H-Small API cost?

$0.0636 per million input tokens and $0.265 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.

What is the context window of Granite-4.0-H-Small?

131,072 tokens of input, and it can write up to 131,072 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.

Does Granite-4.0-H-Small support tool calling?

Yes. It accepts tool definitions and can return JSON that matches a schema, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.

Is Granite-4.0-H-Small open source?

Its weights are published, so you can run it on your own hardware or a cloud of your choice. Read the license before commercial use.

When was Granite-4.0-H-Small released?

Oct 2, 2025.

Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.

Building on Granite-4.0-H-Small?

I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.

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