Side-by-side comparison of IBM Granite 4.1 8B (IBM · USA) and Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2 (Mistral AI · France) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. IBM Granite 4.1 8B is rated EU-ready; Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2 is conditional. They part ways on training data: IBM Granite 4.1 8B 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 8B is an Apache 2.0 9B-parameter dense decoder with a 131k-token context, sourced from publicly-available datasets, internal synthetic data and human-curated material. IBM continues the unusual-for-the-industry training-data transparency that anchored the Granite 3 family, and offers IP indemnification when the model is consumed via watsonx — a strong default for regulated enterprise pilots that need a defensible weights-available alternative to hyperscaler frontier models. | 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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