guard
Granite Guardian 4.1-8B
IBM's guard model covering harm (bias, jailbreak, violence, profanity, unethical behaviour), RAG groundedness and relevance, and function-calling hallucination.
Levelmodel
Classguard
Parameters8B
Contextnot in the notes
ReleasedApr 2026
Opennessopen weights permissive
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive
Benchmark Results
vendor-reported
FC Reward Benchagents and tool use
vendor-reported
0.79
00.40.8
Score in F1. Higher is better.
out-of-distribution safetyvendor-reported
0.79
00.40.8
Score in F1. Higher is better.
LM-AggreFactsafety
vendor-reported
0.76
00.40.8
Score in F1. Higher is better.
Where this comes from
Every score names who ran it: vendor-reported, maintainer-run or independent. A rank is shown with the population it was ranked in (gap rule 3).
Lineage
finetune
granite-4.1-8b is the parent (finetune)high confidencemodel cardWhere this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. The tree shows two generations each way, 2 models. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.
R&D Topics
Identity
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.
Architecture and Size
- Architecture
- not in the notes
- Total parameters
- 8B sources
- Active parameters
- –
- Checkpoint parameters
- –
- Context length
- not in the notes
- Input
- text
- Output
- text
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).
Openness and Access
- Openness
- open weights permissive
- Licence
- Apache License 2.0 sources
- Access routes
- open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.
Deployment
- Runs on
- not in the notes
- Footprint
- not in the notes
- Runtimes
- not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.
Indonesia
- Indonesian support
- not stated
- Regional languages
- not in the notes
- Jakarta hosting
- unknown
- Languages
- English only
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.
Industry Use Cases
No industry use case links this model.
Links
DeveloperIBMbig tech, USA
IBMbig tech, USAModelGranite Guardian 4.1-8BIBM, guard
Granite Guardian 4.1-8BIBM, guardUse Casesnone recorded
Who Runs Itnone recorded
Models 1
Organisations 1
Sources
- ibm-granite/granite-guardian-4.1-8b , Hugging Face huggingface.co https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-guardian-4.1-8b
- ibm-granite (IBM Granite) huggingface.co https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/models?search=guardian
To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Granite Guardian 4.1-8B", https://aurion.semai.id/models/ibm-granite-guardian-4-1-8b/, records of October 2026.