Granite 4.1 8B vs Llama 3.1 Instruct 70B

IBM · Meta · catalog 2026-09-14

Granite 4.1 8B beats Llama 3.1 Instruct 70B: cheaper ($0.055 vs $0.56/M) and at least as smart (index 6.6 vs 6.6).
Granite 4.1 8BLlama 3.1 Instruct 70B
Speed (tok/s)115.2 measured59.5 measured
Blended $/M$0.055 derived$0.56 derived
Intelligence index6.6 measured6.6 measured
TTFT (ms)79 measured166 measured
Context——
Coding indexnot measured for both
Agentic indexnot measured for both

Granite 4.1 8B card · Llama 3.1 Instruct 70B card · 3D observatory

Verdicts use price×intelligence dominance only, and only where both sides are measured; null cells stay null with their provenance (em-dash = not in catalog). Percentile-free by design — this page compares two models, not the field. Generated page — do not hand-edit.