Side-by-side comparison of IBM Granite 4.1 30B (IBM · USA) and Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (Meta Platforms · United States) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. IBM Granite 4.1 30B is rated EU-ready; Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is conditional. They part ways on licence: IBM Granite 4.1 30B is "Apache 2.0", Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is "Llama 3.1 Community Licence".
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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 Per current documentation, Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is released under the Llama 3.1 Community Licence — a custom source-available licence rather than OSI open source. Commercial deployment is permitted below 700M MAU subject to the Acceptable Use Policy and attribution rules, but training-data opacity and US origin create EU AI Act transparency and data-transfer gaps that deployers should document. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-05-03 | 2026-04-17 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Apache 2.0 | Llama 3.1 Community Licence |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Restricted (MAU cap + AUP) |
| Training data | Disclosed | Token count only |
| Origin | USA | United States |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | — | 12/100 |
| Speed | — | 160 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $0.10/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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