Side-by-side comparison of IBM Granite 3 (IBM · USA) and MiniCPM5-1B (OpenBMB) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. IBM Granite 3 is rated EU-ready; MiniCPM5-1B is conditional. They part ways on commercial use: IBM Granite 3 is "Yes", MiniCPM5-1B is "Unrestricted".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | EU-ready Enterprise-focused Granite 3 family under Apache 2.0, with unusual-for-the-industry training-data disclosure. IBM provides IP indemnification when used via watsonx. Strong default for regulated enterprise pilots. | Conditional Per the published Apache 2.0 LICENSE, the 1.08B-parameter weights carry no use restrictions and are well suited to on-device or edge deployments. Unusually for a Chinese-origin release, OpenBMB ships a full data card naming every pre-training and SFT corpus, which closes the AI Act Art. 53 transparency gap most peers leave open. The remaining hedge for regulated EU buyers is vendor jurisdiction (Tsinghua-affiliated lab, mainland China) — self-host the weights and treat any vendor-side service as out of scope. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-05-30 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Yes | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Disclosed | Documented |
| Origin | USA | China |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 7/100 | — |
| Speed | 409 tok/s | — |
| Blended price | $0.09/M | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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