Reasoning model for deliberate analysis, multi-step problem solving, and tool use
Granite 4.2 8B by ibm is offered by 5 providers on this page. Its reference price is $0.10 per 1M input tokens and $0.15 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is OpenRouter at $0.06 / $0.25 per 1M, about 1.7× below the reference price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it.
Artificial Analysis rates it 11.1 on the Intelligence Index, with 22.4 for coding and 1.3 for agentic tasks. Against its lowest blended price of $0.107 per 1M, that is roughly 103 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 60 tokens per second, with 0.75s to the first token. Running one task of the Artificial Analysis suite costs about $0.0236, which reflects how many tokens its reasoning consumes rather than the unit price alone.
The context window is 131,072 tokens, with an output limit of 131,072 tokens. It supports reasoning, tool use, and structured output. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use.
Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.
| Provider | Tier | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Context | Output limit | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | Gateway | $0.06 | $0.25 | $0.015 | — | 131,072 | 117,964 | |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | Gateway | $0.06 | $0.25 | $0.015 | — | 131,072 | 131,072 | |
| Kilo Gateway | Gateway | $0.06 | $0.25 | $0.015 | — | 131,072 | 117,964 | |
| NanoGPT | Gateway | $0.10 | $0.15 | $0.05 | — | 131,072 | 117,964 | |
| CoreWeave | 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.
Price history accumulates from each data sync; currently only 1 sample(s) (2026-10-13). Each future sync adds a point, and once accumulated a line is drawn here.