Side-by-side comparison of IBM Granite 4.1 8B (IBM · USA) and Mistral Medium 3.5 (Mistral AI · France) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. IBM Granite 4.1 8B is rated EU-ready; Mistral Medium 3.5 is EU-ready. They part ways on licence: IBM Granite 4.1 8B is "Apache 2.0", Mistral Medium 3.5 is "Modified MIT".
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| 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. | EU-ready Per Mistral's published license, Mistral Medium 3.5 ships under a Modified MIT License: vanilla-MIT terms for independent developers, startups and most enterprises, with a revenue-threshold carve-out that routes large companies back to a paid commercial agreement. Paris-headquartered vendor with EU jurisdiction end to end and a 256k-token context. Training-data composition is not published in the model card — usual caveat for high-assurance public-sector deployments. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-05-03 | 2026-05-03 |
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| Licence | Apache 2.0 | Modified MIT |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | Permitted (revenue cap) |
| Training data | Disclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | USA | EU (France) |
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| Quality index | — | — |
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