ollama/granite3-dense:8b: benchmark scores, price and ranking

ollama/granite3-dense:8b from IBM ranks #671 of 743 LLMs on the LLMs Tiger aggregate benchmark score (43.6), based on 1 benchmark results captured up to 2026-10-13.

Organisation: IBM
Type: Open-weight / local model
Open weights: Yes
Aggregate rank: #671 of 743 (score 43.6)

Across the 1 benchmark where at least ten models are scored, ollama/granite3-dense:8b is in the top 10% on 0 and in the top half on 0.

ollama/granite3-dense:8b benchmark results

ollama/granite3-dense:8b benchmark scores, ranked against all models measured on each benchmark
Benchmark	Score	Rank	Source	Captured
Aider Code Editing	20.3%	#91 of 92	Aider Aider Code Editing leaderboard	2026-10-13

About ollama/granite3-dense:8b

ollama/granite3-dense:8b is an open-weight model that can run on your own hardware from IBM. 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 ollama/granite3-dense:8b stands

On our aggregate score, ollama/granite3-dense:8b is #671 of 743 ranked models, in the lower half. Its score is 43.6; the scale is centred on 50, so it sits 6.4 points below the typical model. That beats 10% of the ranked field. Among the 4 ranked IBM models it is #1. The next one down is granite-4.0-micro at 43.2.

ollama/granite3-dense:8b, benchmark by benchmark

Aider Code Editing is a weak spot. ollama/granite3-dense:8b scores 20.3%, #91 of 92, behind 98% of the models measured. The leader, Claude 3.5-Sonnet-20241022, reaches 84.2%. It covers Aider official benchmark. The board median is 55.6%, so ollama/granite3-dense:8b is 35.3 points below it. Source: Aider Aider Code Editing leaderboard, captured 2026-10-13.

Reading these numbers

The 1 score on this page comes from 1 source: Aider Aider Code Editing leaderboard (1). 1 of them come from an official leaderboard and 0 from datasets or third-party runs. With 1 results the aggregate rank can move a lot when one new score arrives.