Ibm Granite lists 3 models and Recursive 1. Below: line-up, price tiers, the cheapest model for each capability, and what each costs for five real workloads.
| Ibm Granite | Recursive | |
|---|---|---|
| Models listed | 3 | 1 |
| Models with published pricing | 3 | 1 |
| Typical price (median, 3:1 blend per 1M) | $0.06 | n/a |
| Cheapest paid model | IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro ($0.04) | n/a |
| Longest context | IBM: Granite 4.1 8B (131K) | Recursive: Flint (free) (262K) |
| Free models | 0 | 1 |
| Newest model | IBM: Granite 4.2 8B (2026-08-31) | Recursive: Flint (free) (2026-10-21) |
| Price changes in the last 90 days | 4 | 0 |
For each workload: the cheapest model from each provider that can actually do it (fits the context window; tool calling required for the agent), and its monthly cost at list price.
| Workload (per month) | Ibm Granite | Recursive |
|---|---|---|
| Customer-support chatbot 50,000 conversations — each a 6-turn conversation | $3.52 with IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro | no suitable model |
| RAG search over documents 20,000 questions — each a question answered from ~8 retrieved passages | $3.16 with IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro | no suitable model |
| Coding / tool-using agent 2,000 tasks — each a multi-step task with tool calls and file context | $7.20 with IBM: Granite 4.1 8B | no suitable model |
| Batch summarisation 10,000 documents — each a 6,000-word report summarised to a page | $2.03 with IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro | no suitable model |
| Long-document analysis 500 documents — each a 150-page contract or codebase read in one pass | $0.96 with IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro | no suitable model |
| You need | Ibm Granite | Recursive |
|---|---|---|
| Any model | IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro ($0.04) | none listed |
| With tool calling | IBM: Granite 4.1 8B ($0.06) | none listed |
| With image input | none listed | none listed |
| With reasoning mode | IBM: Granite 4.2 8B ($0.11) | none listed |
| 128K+ context | IBM: Granite 4.0 Micro ($0.04) | none listed |
| 1M+ context | none listed | none listed |
| Model type | Ibm Granite | Recursive |
|---|---|---|
| text->text | 3 | 1 |
| Price per 1M (3:1 blend) | Ibm Granite | Recursive |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 0 | 1 |
| Under $0.50 | 3 | 0 |
| $0.50 – $3 | 0 | 0 |
| $3 – $10 | 0 | 0 |
| $10 and up | 0 | 0 |
It depends on the job: Ibm Granite offers the broader line-up (3 models vs 1), Recursive the longest context (262K tokens). The workload table above shows which wins for chat, RAG, agents, batch jobs and long documents.
Ibm Granite: Ibm Granite lists 3 models and Recursive lists 1.
Recursive: Ibm Granite's longest is IBM: Granite 4.1 8B at 131K tokens; Recursive's is Recursive: Flint (free) at 262K.
Ibm Granite: none. Recursive: 1 free model (e.g. Recursive: Flint (free)).
Ibm Granite: 0 of 3 models accept images. Recursive: 0 of 1.