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Granite Embedding 278M Multilingual

IBM Granite multilingual embedding model on watsonx.ai (768 dimensions).

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Specs

Context
512
Max output
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Input price
$0.106/ 1M tokens
Output price
—
Released
2024-12-18

Context

Context window
512
Max input
512
Max output
—

Pricing · USD / 1M tokens

Input
$0.106
Output
—
Cache read
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Cache write
—

Modalities

Input
Text
Output
Embedding

API

API types
embeddings

Reasoning

Not published

Info

Status
Active
Released
2024-12-18
Knowledge cutoff
—

Features

Not published
Source · official docsVerified 2026-10-11

How to call

1 provider

ibmmodel = ibm/granite-embedding-278m-multilingual

embeddings
POSThttps://us-south.ml.cloud.ibm.com/ml/v1/text/embeddings

JSON

Standard format
granite-embedding-278m-multilingual.json
{
  "id": "granite-embedding-278m-multilingual",
  "object": "model",
  "created": 1734480000,
  "owned_by": "ibm",
  "name": "Granite Embedding 278M Multilingual",
  "api": {
    "types": [
      "embeddings"
    ]
  },
  "limits": {
    "context": 512,
    "input": 512,
    "output": null
  },
  "modalities": {
    "input": [
      "text"
    ],
    "output": [
      "embedding"
    ]
  },
  "reasoning": {
    "supported": null,
    "efforts": []
  },
  "pricing": {
    "currency": "USD",
    "unit": "1M_tokens",
    "input": 0.106,
    "output": null,
    "cache_read": null,
    "cache_write": null
  },
  "features": [],
  "info": {
    "status": "active",
    "release_date": "2024-12-18",
    "knowledge_cutoff": null,
    "description": "IBM Granite multilingual embedding model on watsonx.ai (768 dimensions).",
    "docs": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/saas?topic=models-supported-encoder",
    "verified_at": "2026-10-11"
  }
}

Official sources

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