Side-by-side comparison of IBM Granite 4.1 30B (IBM · USA) and MiniMax-M2.7 (MiniMax AI · China) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. IBM Granite 4.1 30B is rated EU-ready; MiniMax-M2.7 is blocked. They part ways on licence: IBM Granite 4.1 30B is "Apache 2.0", MiniMax-M2.7 is "MiniMax Non-Commercial License".
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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. | Blocked Per current documentation, the MiniMax Non-Commercial License prohibits commercial deployment without individually negotiated written authorization from MiniMax, making the weights unsuitable for EU commercial workloads out-of-the-box. Opaque training data and Shanghai-based publisher compound the EU AI Act and data-transfer gaps. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-05-03 | 2026-04-17 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Apache 2.0 | MiniMax Non-Commercial License |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Non-commercial only |
| Training data | Disclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | USA | China (Shanghai) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | — | 50/100 |
| Speed | — | 46 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $0.53/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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