ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8bGranite 4.2 8B is IBM’s AI model, released Aug 31, 2026. It costs $0.06/M input and $0.25/M output tokens, and handles a 131K-token context window.
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.
Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher is better — and rank shows where Granite 4.2 8B lands among all models tracked on Model Beat.
Graduate-level scientific reasoning
Frontier of human expert knowledge
Scientific research coding
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.
Granite 4.2 8B is an AI model developed by IBM, released Aug 31, 2026.
Granite 4.2 8B is served from $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens (cheapest credible provider on OpenRouter: DeepInfra).
Granite 4.2 8B supports a context window of up to 131K tokens.
On standardized evaluations tracked by Epoch AI, Granite 4.2 8B scores 9.7% on Humanity's Last Exam, 31.5% on SciCode, 63.1% on GPQA Diamond.
Benchmark data from Epoch AI (CC BY) and Artificial Analysis; pricing, specs & descriptions from OpenRouter. Data updated Sep 10, 2026.