Granite 4.0 Micro vs Llama 3 8B Lunaris

Granite 4.0 Micro at $0.020 in and $0.129 out and Llama 3 8B Lunaris at $0.046 in and $0.058 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Granite 4.0 Micro

Ibm Granite

0.02¢

for a client proposal

$0.020 in · $0.129 out / 1M

131K context · released October 2025

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Llama 3 8B Lunaris

Sao10k

0.03¢

for a client proposal

$0.046 in · $0.058 out / 1M

8K context · released August 2024

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.05¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: Granite 4.0 Micro at $0.020 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Llama 3 8B Lunaris at $0.058 per million tokens.
Largest context: Granite 4.0 Micro at 131K tokens — about 190 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Granite 4.0 Micro

0.01¢

Llama 3 8B Lunaris

0.01¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Granite 4.0 Micro

0.02¢

Llama 3 8B Lunaris

0.03¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Granite 4.0 Micro

needs 155K ctx

Llama 3 8B Lunaris

needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Granite 4.0 Micro

0.08¢

Llama 3 8B Lunaris

needs 35K ctx

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Granite 4.0 Micro

needs 250K ctx

Llama 3 8B Lunaris

needs 250K ctx

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

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80% Input20% Output

Granite 4.0 Micro

Llama 3 8B Lunaris

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

Granite 4.0 Micro

Llama 3 8B Lunaris

Input / 1M tokens

$0.020

$0.046

Output / 1M tokens

$0.129

$0.058

Specs

Granite 4.0 Micro

Llama 3 8B Lunaris

Provider

Ibm Granite

Sao10k

Released

October 2025

August 2024

Context window

131K

Max output

131K

16K

Input

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Knowledge cutoff

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2023-12-31

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Granite 4.0 Micro

Ibm Granite

0.01¢

for this task

38% input · 62% output

Full pricing →

Llama 3 8B Lunaris

Sao10k

0.01¢

for this task

76% input · 24% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.02¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 22,296 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Granite 4.0 Micro has the largest context window here — 131K tokens.

On price, Granite 4.0 Micro is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.02¢.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

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Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Granite 4.0 Micro or Llama 3 8B Lunaris?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Granite 4.0 Micro at 0.02¢; Llama 3 8B Lunaris at 0.03¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Granite 4.0 Micro — 131K tokens, about 190 pages.

Can I run Granite 4.0 Micro and Llama 3 8B Lunaris side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.05¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.05¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.