# ibm/granite-3-8b-instruct — Withdrawn — shutdown 22 February 2026

For ibm/granite-3-8b-instruct, provider is IBM watsonx.ai; lifecycle status is Withdrawn; deprecation announced is 24 November 2025; shutdown / retirement date is 22 February 2026; recommended replacement is granite-4-h-small; platform / deployment scope is watsonx.ai multitenant deployment, recorded from its source on 2026-09-16.

- **Provider:** IBM watsonx.ai _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Model ID / API name:** ibm/granite-3-8b-instruct _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Human-readable model name:** granite-3-8b-instruct _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Lifecycle status:** Withdrawn
- **Release date:** 21 October 2024 _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Deprecation announced:** 24 November 2025 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Shutdown / retirement date:** 22 February 2026 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Recommended replacement:** granite-4-h-small _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Platform / deployment scope:** watsonx.ai multitenant deployment _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> granite-3-8b-instruct ibm/granite-3-8b-instruct | 21 October 2024 | 24 November 2025 | 22 February 2026 | granite-4-h-small |

## Where each value comes from

This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.

### Release date

> Foundation model name API model ID | Availability date | Deprecation date | Withdrawal date | Recommended alternative model | mistral-large-2512 (Dallas data center) mistralai/mistral-large-2512 | 12 December 2025 | 8 May 2026 | 12 January 2027 | mistral-large-2512 on Deploy on demand | mistral-medium-2505 (Dallas, Frankfurt, Tokyo data centers) mistralai/mistral-medium-2505 | 7 May 2025 | 8 May 2026 | 12 January 2027 | mistral-medium-2508 on Deploy on demand | granite-8b-code-instruct (Dallas, Sydney, AWS Mumbai data centers) ibm/granite-8b-code-instruct | 13 February 2025 | 8 May 2026 | 8 August 2026 | granite-8b-code-instruct on Deploy on demand | granite-guardian-3-8b (Dallas, Sydney, AWS Mumbai, AWS GovCloud data centers) ibm/granite-guardian-3-8b | 21 October 2024 | 8 May 2026 | 8 August 2026 | | llama-3-2-11b-vision-instruct (Dallas, Frankfurt, London, Tokyo, Sydney, Toronto data centers) meta-llama/llama-3-2-11b-vision-instruct | 22 January 2025 | 8 May 2026 | 8 August 2026 | llama-3-2-11b-vision-instruct on Deploy on demand | llama-3-2-90b-vision-instruct (AWS GovCloud data center) meta-llama/llama-3-2-90b-vision-instruct | 25 September 2025 | 8 May 2026 | 8 June 2026 | llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct-fp8 | llama-guard-3-11b-vision (Dallas, Tokyo, Sydney data centers) meta-llama/llama-guard-3-11b-vision | 22 January 2025 | 8 May 2026 | 8 August 2026 | llama-3-2-90b-vision-instruct on Deploy on demand | allam-1-13b-instruct (Frankfurt data center) sdaia/allam-1-13b-instruct | 21 May 2024 | 8 May 2026 | 8 June 2026 | allam-1-13b-instruct on Deploy on demand | llama-3-405b-instruct meta-llama/llama-3-405b-instruct | 23 July 2024 | 24 November 2025 | 31 March 2026 | llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct-fp8 | llama-3-2-90b-vision-instruct meta-llama/llama-3-2-90b-vision-instruct | 25 September 2025 | 24 November 2025 | 31 March 2026 | llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instruct-fp8 | granite-3-8b-instruct ibm/granite-3-8b-instruct | 21 October 2024 | 24 November 2025 | 22 February 2026 | granite-4-h-small |

## Source

- https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/saas?topic=models-foundation-model-lifecycle

Last verified: 2026-09-16. Review by: 2026-10-16.
Part of [AI model deprecation and retirement dates by provider](https://referencesource.org/ai-model-deprecation-and-retirement/).