Side-by-side comparison of IBM Granite 4.1 30B (IBM · USA) and Jamba 1.5 Large (AI21 Labs · Israel) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. IBM Granite 4.1 30B is rated EU-ready; Jamba 1.5 Large is conditional. They part ways on licence: IBM Granite 4.1 30B is "Apache 2.0", Jamba 1.5 Large is "Jamba Open".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | 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. | Conditional SSM-Transformer hybrid (Mamba) with 256K context. Jamba Open Model License permits commercial use below $50M annual revenue; above that, paid licence required. Israel jurisdiction; EU adequacy decision in place. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-05-03 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Apache 2.0 | Jamba Open |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Under $50M rev. |
| Training data | Disclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | USA | Israel |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | — | 11/100 |
| Speed | — | — |
| Blended price | — | $3.50/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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