Granite 4.0 Micro: API pricing, context window and capabilities

Prices from official vendor price lists · October 2026

Granite 4.0 Micro costs $0.017 per 1M input tokens and $0.112 per 1M output tokens, with a 131K context window. One of the cheapest models here — below 98% of the rating on output price. Suited to high volume, where a wrong answer is cheap to retry.

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Capabilities

API $/1M (in / out)

$0.017 / $0.112

Context window

131K tokens

Price / mo

API only

Overview Reviews

Granite 4.0 Micro is an AI model from IBM, priced at $0.017 input and $0.112 output per 1M tokens. That places it in the budget tier of this rating — cheaper than 98% of the 205 priced models listed.

It holds 131K tokens in a single conversation. Capabilities recorded in this rating: text & chat, reasoning, tool calling, low latency, multilingual. Access is through the API rather than a consumer subscription.

API price$0.017 / $0.112per 1M tokens, in / out

Context131K tokenstokens per conversation

VendorIBMall models from this vendor

TierBudgetcheaper than 98% of models

Cost calculator

1M tokens/mo10M tokens/mo50M tokens/mo200M tokens/mo

Standard$0.09~~AED 0 per month~~

With batch −50%$0.04~~AED 0 per month~~

With caching on input$0.08~~AED 0 per month~~

Standard$0.88~~AED 3 per month~~

With batch −50%$0.44~~AED 2 per month~~

With caching on input$0.84~~AED 3 per month~~

Standard$4.41~~AED 16 per month~~

With batch −50%$2.21~~AED 8 per month~~

With caching on input$4.22~~AED 16 per month~~

Standard$17.65~~AED 65 per month~~

With batch −50%$8.83~~AED 32 per month~~

With caching on input$16.89~~AED 62 per month~~

Assumes a 1:3 input-to-output ratio, which is typical for chat and generation. Dirham figures use 3.6725 per dollar. Batch and caching discounts apply where the vendor offers them.

Compared with alternatives

How Granite 4.0 Micro sits against its neighbours in this rating. Tap a card to open that model.

Qwen3.7 Flash

Cheaper

Alibaba (Qwen)

$0.028 / $0.111M tokens

Solar Pro 4

Closest match

Upstage

$0.03 / $0.12524.3K tokens

Solar Pro 4

Step up

Upstage

$0.03 / $0.12524.3K tokens

Good and poor fit

Good fit

Multi-step analysis, planning and code review, where the first plausible answer is often wrong.
High-volume routing, classification and autocomplete.

Poor fit

Long multi-step reasoning, where a larger model finishes in fewer attempts.
Anything requiring image input — this model does not accept it.

Related filters

Text & chat234 models for text generation and chat

Reasoning175 models that think before answering

Tool calling172 models that call your functions

Low latency76 small, fast models for volume

MultilingualAll 245 models work beyond English

IBM2 models from this vendor

All 245 modelsThe full rating with filters and prices

Frequently asked questions

How much does Granite 4.0 Micro cost?

$0.017 / $0.112 per 1M tokens, input and output. In dirhams that is roughly AED 0.06 per 1M input tokens. Batch processing halves it where the vendor offers it.

What is the context window of Granite 4.0 Micro?

131K tokens in a single conversation.

What can Granite 4.0 Micro do?

In this rating it is recorded with: text & chat, reasoning, tool calling, low latency, multilingual, open weights.

Is Granite 4.0 Micro a good choice?

It depends on the job. See the good-fit and poor-fit lists above, and compare against the neighbouring models before committing.

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