Side-by-side comparison of Codestral 22B (Mistral AI · France) and IBM Granite 4.1 30B (IBM · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Codestral 22B is rated conditional; IBM Granite 4.1 30B is EU-ready. They part ways on licence: Codestral 22B is "MNPL (non-prod)", IBM Granite 4.1 30B is "Apache 2.0".
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| Verdict | Conditional EU code model trained on 80+ languages. Licensed under Mistral Non-Production License — blocked for any production or commercial deployment without a paid commercial licence. Use Codestral Mamba (Apache 2.0) if you need commercial freedom. | EU-ready Per the published model card, Granite 4.1 30B is an Apache 2.0 30-billion-parameter dense decoder with a 131k-token context, trained on the same publicly-available + synthetic + human-curated mix that anchors the rest of the Granite family. The larger sibling of Granite 4.1 8B, positioned for enterprise workloads where the 8B class falls short on reasoning depth — same defensible-default profile, with IP indemnification available via watsonx. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-05-03 |
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| Licence | MNPL (non-prod) | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Paid licence req. | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Partial | Disclosed |
| Origin | EU | USA |
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