https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-switch Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for Granite Switch 4.1. en Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:18:46 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-switch#rev_3391 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-switch#rev_3391 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review IBM published the Granite Switch 4.1 8B and 30B checkpoints on 14 October 2026. The 8B preview was overwritten in place on 3 May and again on 15 October, when it was rebuilt with audio. The composer's changelog has one entry, 0.1.0 MVP, which says the API is not yet stable, the 0.1.1 bump has none and the repository has no tags. The card and pyproject.toml give different Python and vLLM ranges. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 17 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-switch#rev_3392 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-switch#rev_3392 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Granite Switch is free under Apache 2.0, with ungated weights and no account or card. IBM hosts no endpoint and Hugging Face lists no inference provider, so the cost is hardware for 8.78B or 29.99B BF16 parameters. A decision is one prefill and one output token, and more than 128 options cost one extra request per 128. We did not run the model, so hardware sizing is unchecked. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 17 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-switch#rev_3393 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-switch#rev_3393 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review The adapter contract is the chat template, `adapter_index.json` and one `io.yaml` per adapter, with no specification file. A decision request is free-form prompt text, and the caller computes single-token label ids with the tokeniser. The adapter card defines three output types, but nothing on the endpoint enforces them. Two HTTP 400 cases are documented, and a malformed guardian reply has no stated handling. The cards do say decision probabilities are only a prior outside trained domains. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 17 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-switch#rev_3394 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-switch#rev_3394 Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Granite Switch takes no write actions and needs no account, so there is no vendor secret to leak. vLLM requires no key by default, and SECURITY.md tells operators to add authentication themselves. The model reads untrusted text and audio by design, and nothing documents how hostile text in the state can steer a decision. The decision adapters in Granite Libraries are certificate-signed, but the composed 4.1 checkpoints carry no signature file. IBM's security.txt is valid and names PSIRT and HackerOne. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 17 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-switch https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-switch#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing Granite Switch 4.1 is IBM's open-weight 8B and 30B Granite 4.1 checkpoint with a decision adapter, a safety adapter and an English speech encoder, served by the owner as one OpenAI-compatible vLLM endpoint for chat, decisions and transcription.