granite-3.0-8b-base: benchmark scores, price and ranking
granite-3.0-8b-base from ibm-granite ranks #629 of 743 LLMs on the LLMs Tiger aggregate benchmark score (44.6), based on 1 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.
- Organisation
- ibm-granite
- Type
- Open-weight / local model
- Open weights
- Yes
- Aggregate rank
- #629 of 743 (score 44.6)
Across the 1 benchmark where at least ten models are scored, granite-3.0-8b-base is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 0.
granite-3.0-8b-base benchmark results
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Source | Captured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 31.0% | #117 of 136 | HuggingFace MMLU-Pro leaderboard | 2026-10-13 |
About granite-3.0-8b-base
granite-3.0-8b-base is an open-weight model that can run on your own hardware from ibm-granite. No API price is listed for it yet. We hold 1 benchmark result for it across 1 area, and none is in the top tenth of its board.
Where granite-3.0-8b-base stands
On our aggregate score, granite-3.0-8b-base is #629 of 743 ranked models, in the lower half. Its score is 44.6; the scale is centred on 50, so it sits 5.4 points below the typical model. That beats 15% of the ranked field. Among the 9 ranked ibm-granite models it is #4. The next one up is granite-3.1-8b-base at 44.9. The next one down is granite-4.1-3b at 44.4.
granite-3.0-8b-base, benchmark by benchmark
MMLU-Pro is a weak spot. granite-3.0-8b-base scores 31.0%, #117 of 136, behind 85% of the models measured. The leader, Darwin-180B-RSI, reaches 88.1%. It covers 57-subject knowledge + reasoning. The board median is 55.3%, so granite-3.0-8b-base is 24.2 points below it. Source: HuggingFace MMLU-Pro leaderboard, captured 2026-10-13.
Reading these numbers
The 1 score on this page comes from 1 source: HuggingFace MMLU-Pro leaderboard (1). No official leaderboard supplied any of them, so treat them as third-party measurements. With 1 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.
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More from ibm-granite
- granite-4.1-8b (#461, 47.1)
- granite-4.1-30b (#577, 45.5)
- granite-3.1-8b-base (#619, 44.9)
- granite-4.1-3b (#639, 44.4)
- granite-3.1-2b-base (#669, 43.6)
- granite-3.0-2b-base (#681, 43.3)
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