IBM: Granite 4.2 8B

IBM-GRANITE Developer Architecture Profile

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Intelligence (ELO)1440Chatbot Arena Verified

Max Context Limit131,072Max Out: 117,964 tokens

Prompt Caching75% OFF$0.01 / 1M cached

Standard API / 1M$0.31🧠 Deep Reasoner

Model Capabilities & Contract SLAs

Drafting
Classification
Reasoning
Coding & Logic
Fictional
🧠 Extended Test-Time Reasoning

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,...

Granular Pricing Matrix

Input Tokens (Standard Prompt)$0.06 / 1M

⚡ Cached Input (Prompt Cache Read)75% OFF$0.01 / 1M

Output Tokens (Completion)$0.25 / 1M

Pricing data via OpenRouter. Sync: 10/2/2026

Evaluate Competitors

VS Engine MatchupIBM: Granite 4.2 8B vs OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol VS Engine MatchupIBM: Granite 4.2 8B vs OpenAI: GPT Terra Latest VS Engine MatchupIBM: Granite 4.2 8B vs Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)VS Engine MatchupIBM: Granite 4.2 8B vs Z.ai: GLM 5.3 VS Engine MatchupIBM: Granite 4.2 8B vs Cohere: North Mini Code (free)VS Engine MatchupIBM: Granite 4.2 8B vs Z.ai: GLM 4.7 Flash