Granite (IBM)
apache 2.0, native fim, half a million tokens of context — and the dedicated code line is officially deprecated.
the cleanest licensing story in this ranking and native fim at 5gb — on a product line ibm has folded into its general models.
apache 2.0, verified in the repository's raw licence file, with ibm's documentation and the licence in complete agreement — which after codestral and starcoder2 is worth noting as a category in itself. granite 4.1 also signs its weights cryptographically, which nothing else here does.
the practical specs are strong for local work: 8b at roughly 5gb quantised, native fill-in-the-middle documented by ibm, and context extended to 512k in 4.1 through staged extension with model merging. for an editor integration inside a regulated environment that combination is hard to beat.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- coding llms
- pricing
- free (apache 2.0)
- website
- github.com
the cleanest licensing story in this ranking and native fim at 5gb — on a product line ibm has folded into its general models.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.