ibm/granite-guardian-3-8b — Withdrawn — shutdown 8 August 2026
For ibm/granite-guardian-3-8b, provider is IBM watsonx.ai; lifecycle status is Withdrawn; deprecation announced is 8 May 2026; shutdown / retirement date is 8 August 2026; platform / deployment scope is watsonx.ai multitenant deployment (Dallas, Sydney, AWS Mumbai, AWS GovCloud data centers), recorded from its source on 2026-09-16.
- Provider
- IBM watsonx.ai our reading
- Model ID / API name
- ibm/granite-guardian-3-8b verified
- Human-readable model name
- granite-guardian-3-8b verified
- Lifecycle status
- Withdrawn
- Release date
- 21 October 2024 verified
- Deprecation announced
- 8 May 2026 verified
- Shutdown / retirement date
- 8 August 2026 verified
- Platform / deployment scope
- watsonx.ai multitenant deployment (Dallas, Sydney, AWS Mumbai, AWS GovCloud data centers) our reading
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What the source says
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 | |
— ibm.com, retrieved 2026-09-16
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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 | |
— all from ibm.com, retrieved 2026-09-16
Source
- ibm.comhttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/saas?topic=models-foundation-model-lifecycle
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