Granite 4.2 8B

IBM· released 31 Aug 2026

ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b

Input / 1M tokens: $0.06
Output / 1M tokens: $0.25

Context window131K tokens

Longest answer: 118K tokens

reads textopen weightstool callingreasoning

About

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.

Details

Lab: IBMopenrouter.ai · 3 Oct 2026
Context: 131Kopenrouter.ai · 3 Oct 2026
Input price: $0.06 / 1Mopenrouter.ai · 3 Oct 2026
Output price: $0.25 / 1Mopenrouter.ai · 3 Oct 2026
Max output: 117,964 tokensopenrouter.ai · 3 Oct 2026
Inputs: textopenrouter.ai · 3 Oct 2026
Open weights: Yesopenrouter.ai · 3 Oct 2026

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openrouter.ai/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b· checked 3 Oct 2026