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IBM: Granite 4.2 8B

ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b

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Granite 4.2 8B is a dense reasoning model from IBM. It is suited for mathematics, code generation, multilingual dialogue, and agentic workflows that need multi-step reasoning. It supports full, low-effort, and non-thinking modes.

The model supports 12 languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Arabic, Czech, Italian, Korean, Dutch, and Chinese.

Modalities

In / Out Price

$0.06 / $0.25per 1M

Context

131K

Released

Aug 31, 2026

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Providers

Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick — Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Exacto (highest tool-calling accuracy).

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher percentages are better — and rank percentile shows where this model lands among all models on OpenRouter.

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

Quick Start

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

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133tok/s

P50, best across providers

Latency

0.29s

P50, best provider

Uptime (3d)

99.96%

Availability (3d)

98.29%

Availability over the last 3 days

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99.85%
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99.85%

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Frequently asked questions

Granite 4.2 8B is a dense reasoning model from IBM. It is suited for mathematics, code generation, multilingual dialogue, and agentic workflows that need multi-step reasoning. It supports full, low-effort, and non-thinking modes. The model supports 12 languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Arabic, Czech, Italian, Korean, Dutch, and Chinese.

Granite 4.2 8B costs $0.06/M input tokens and $0.25/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.015/M tokens.

Granite 4.2 8B has a 131,072 token context window.

Yes. Granite 4.2 8B accepts tools for function calling. It supports response_format for JSON output, without JSON-schema enforcement.

Granite 4.2 8B is served by 2 providers on OpenRouter: DeepInfra and CoreWeave. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.

Granite 4.2 8B was released on August 31, 2026.