Granite 4.2 8B
by IBMChat
Granite 4.2 8B is an instruct model capable of enhanced tool calling, instruction following, and chat capabilities.
- Context
- 131K tokens
- Max output
- 131,072 tokens
- Parameters
- 8.8B total
- Released
- 2026-08-31
- Weights
- Open
- Licence
- apache-2.0
ibm/granite-4-2-8b · also seen as ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b, deepinfra/granite-4.2-8b, ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-20260831
Specifications
Full facts as recorded, incl. what is unknown.
- Released
- 2026-08-31
- Weights
- Opennot gated
- License
- apache-2.0
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Context window
- 131,072 max across endpoints
- Max output
- 131,072
- Providers
- 3 + 5 gateways, not counted as providers
- Epoch Capabilities Index
- not evaluated
- Direct price range
- $0.06–$0.10 in · $0.15–$0.25 out per 1M tokens · across all 3 providers
More details
- Last updated
- 2026-09-01
- Knowledge cutoff
- Weights link
- Hugging Face · ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b
- Parameters
- 8.8B total
- Base model
- ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-base
Capabilities
Across all endpoints: supported if any endpoint supports it.
- Tool calling
- Parallel toolsunknown
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Image input
- PDF input
- Audio input
- Audio outputunknown
- Video input
- Prompt caching
- Web searchunknown
- Computer useunknown
- System messagesunknown
- Assistant prefillunknown
- Temperature
- Streamingunknown
- Attachments
Endpoints
One row per provider and variant; gateways are listed separately.
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Price history
No change since 19 Oct 2026. The cheapest direct price has been $0.06 in / $0.25 out per 1M tokens at Deep Infra on every data refresh since then.
Tracked from 19 Oct 2026. Headline-eligible direct prices only, so a price the sanity check flags never draws a spike. Series as JSON
Cost calculator
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