Granite 4.2 8B

Name: Granite 4.2 8B
Brand: ibm-granite
SKU: ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b

ibm-granite·ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b·GA·Open weights·granite series·NEW

Granite 4.2 8B is an instruct model capable of enhanced tool calling, instruction following, and chat capabilities.

At a glance

Reference price$0.10 / $0.15 per 1M

Cache read $0.05 · Weights & Biases

Lowest paid$0.10 / $0.15

Weights & Biases Cloud

Context131,072

Output limit131,072

Capabilities

✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ TemperatureAttachments

Modalities

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Released / updated2026-08-24 / 2026-08-24

Quality & performance

Artificial Analysis doesn't cover this model (267 of 2059 have data). Quality data comes from independent evals covering widely used models.

Available at 1 providers1 with public prices

Priced only

Provider	Tier	Input	Output	Cache read	Cache write	Context	Output limit	Status
Weights & Biases	Cloud	$0.10	$0.15	$0.05	—	131,072	131,072

Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.

Your usage cost

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Common scenarios

1Weights & Biases$21.50

The cheapest paid channel is the only channel.

Benchmark

No upstream benchmark data for this model. For quality, see the Artificial Analysis intelligence score above.

Reasoning control

Upstream provides no control info

1 / 1 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).

Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync

Input list $0.10Output list $0.15Min blended $0.113

Price history accumulates from each data sync; currently only 1 sample(s) (2026-08-26). Each future sync adds a point, and once accumulated a line is drawn here.