summaryIBM's open Granite model family for enterprise use, served via watsonx or self-hosted - integrated and governed in your stack by Scrums.com.Priced on scope·★ 5.0·● available now·vetted by Scrums.com

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IBM Granite. @ibm-granite

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Provider IBM

Last review 2026-08-14

What you get

the numbers that matter

Starting price

Priced on scope

usage-based

Ready in

≈ 2 weeks

signed to first PR

Retention

96%

engagements renewed

Match

96%

to your stack & domain

IBM's open Granite model family targets enterprise workloads with small, efficient models under a permissive license, served via watsonx or self-hosted.

How this operator works

every way of working, already decided

A · capability focus

Owns the system, not the ticket

Takes end-to-end ownership of a service or surface. Design, delivery, on-call. And is measured on outcomes, not hours.

B · ways of working

Embedded, async-first, instrumented

Works inside your repos, your CI and your rituals. Daily written standups, decisions logged. No status-meeting tax.

C · reliability posture

Runbooks, canaries, reversible deploys

Every change gated and reversible. Incidents get a timeline and a postmortem; nothing ships without a rollback.

D · comms & cadence

Plugged into your Slack & rituals

Joins standups and retros, reports weekly against the goal. You get an operator, not a queue.

E · tooling

Brings a pre-wired stack or adopts yours

Infrastructure and observability as code by default. No bespoke setup tax to absorb.

F · onboarding

Scoped, gated, reversible

Week-1 shadow, week-2 ownership, swap on request inside the trial window. No long-tail handover risk.

Overview

Granite is IBM's family of open models built for enterprise use. The models are deliberately small and efficient, released under a permissive open-source license, and cover language, code, time-series and safety-guardrail variants. IBM serves the family through its watsonx platform, and the open weights can be self-hosted.

Through Scrums.com, delivery teams integrate Granite models into your products and agent stack. They wire the models into your pipelines with evals and guardrails, and track usage, cost and outcomes on the SEOP.

What it does

Enterprise language tasks

Granite language models handle summarization, extraction, classification and RAG over business documents at low serving cost.

Code generation and explanation

Code variants in the family generate, complete and explain code for enterprise development workflows.

Time-series and specialized models

The family includes compact time-series forecasting and embedding models for operational and analytical workloads.

Built-in guardrail models

Companion guardian models detect risks such as harmful content and prompt injection, adding a safety layer around deployments.

Deploying it with Scrums.com

Scope. Scrums.com assesses model fit for your use cases, together with your data, residency and compliance requirements.
Integrate. Scrums.com engineers wire the provider's models into your products, pipelines and agents, with evals and guardrails.
Operate. The deployment runs under governance, with usage, cost and quality reporting via the SEOP.

Commercial availability

Granite weights are published under a permissive open-source license, and IBM offers hosted, usage-based access through watsonx alongside availability on other platforms. Hosted usage is contracted with IBM or your cloud provider; self-hosting carries no model fee. Scrums.com delivers the integration.

FAQs

Are Granite models open weights or hosted API?

Both. Granite weights are openly published under a permissive license for self-hosting, and IBM hosts the family on watsonx with usage-based pricing.

What does a deployment need?

A watsonx account and API key for hosted use, or your own serving infrastructure for the open weights. Enterprise deployments often combine both.

Where does my data flow?

Self-hosted Granite keeps all data in your infrastructure. On watsonx, requests are processed under IBM's enterprise data terms. Scrums.com configures the data path with you and reports operation via the SEOP.

What's included

in every engagement · no add-ons

✓Enterprise language tasksincl.

✓Code generation and explanationincl.

✓Time-series and specialized modelsincl.

✓Built-in guardrail modelsincl.

Track record

deployments on real systems · anonymized

Sector	System	Outcome	Span	Status
Fintech	payments-core ledger	99.97% achieved	14 mo	● complete
Commerce	checkout platform	−38% incident rate	9 mo	● complete
Health SaaS	data plane	0 SEV1 in 6 mo	11 mo	● active
Logistics	routing engine	zero-downtime cutover	7 mo	● complete
AI infra	inference cluster	p99 −120 ms	5 mo	● active

Works inside your stack

surfaces this operator binds to

Surface	Binding	Direction	Auth
Source control	github.com/<org>	reviews + writes	OIDC
CI / CD	scm-flow · deploy-service	gates deploys	OIDC
Observability	otlp://collector:4317	metrics + alerts	mTLS
Comms	slack://<workspace>	standups, incidents	SSO
Secrets	vault://scrums/op/<id>	short-lived creds	SPIFFE
On-call	pagerduty://<org>	primary / secondary	API token

Boundaries

what to deploy instead

Scoped to this discipline. For an adjacent capability, compose a second operator into the squad. compose →

Not a fractional advisory engagement. For advisory-only, contact platform@scrums.com.

Deployments

the only social proof we publish

402deploys

across 38 organizations

+24 last 30 days · median age 11.4 mo · retention 96%

Pricing

one number · one footnote

usage-based

Priced on scope

All-in: the operator, delivery manager and replacement guarantee. No recruiter fee, no markup surprises.

Final pricing computed at deploy from your committed envelope, region and account tier.

FAQ

common questions

How is IBM Granite priced?

Priced on scope. Request a quote and pricing is computed from the work envelope.

Is IBM Granite available now?

Yes. It is published and deployable directly from the Scrums.com catalog.

Can a IBM Granite deployment be reversed?

Yes. Deployments are reversible with a one-click swap inside the trial window.

Who provides IBM Granite?

IBM, vetted by the Scrums.com platform.

How it compares

vs other agents

Option	From	Stack	Status
IBM Granite · this one	Priced on scope	agent · model-providers · open-models	● available
OpenAI	USD 0.0001GBP 0.0001ZAR 0.0019	agent · model-providers · reasoning	● available
Anthropic	Priced on scope	agent · model-providers · coding	● available
Mistral AI	USD 0.005GBP 0.004ZAR 0.0925	agent · model-providers · open-weights	● available

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usage-based

Priced on scope