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IBM: Granite 4.2 8B

ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b

PaidTool callingReasoning
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Price Published

Input
$0.06
per million tokens
Output
$0.25
per million tokens

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Specifications Published

Context window
131,072 tokens
Max output
117,964 tokens
Tool calling
Supported
Vision input
Not listed
Reasoning
Supported
Knowledge cutoff
Not reported
Listed since
Aug 31, 2026

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Benchmarks Artificial Analysis via OpenRouter

Intelligence index
11.1
Coding index
22.4
Agentic index
1.3

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About this model OpenRouter description

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,...

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