Side-by-side comparison of IBM Granite 4.1 30B (IBM · USA) and Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2 (Mistral AI · France) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. IBM Granite 4.1 30B is rated EU-ready; Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2 is conditional. They part ways on training data: IBM Granite 4.1 30B is "Disclosed", Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2 is "Undisclosed".
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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 Based on published licence terms, Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2 is an EU-origin open-weight model under standard Apache 2.0 — commercial deployment and self-hosting are permitted without field-of-use restrictions. Training-data opacity is the primary EU AI Act Art. 53 gap, but the French controller, absence of CLOUD Act exposure, and Mistral's published DPA make this a strong baseline for regulated EU workloads. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-05-03 | 2026-04-17 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Disclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | USA | EU (France) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | — | 7/100 |
| Speed | — | 193 tok/s |
| Blended price | — | $0.25/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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