IBM: Granite 4.2 8B
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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Specifications
- Provider
- ibm-granite
- Category
- llm
- Context length
- 131,072 tokens
- Max output
- 117,964 tokens
- Modalities
- text
- License
- proprietary
- Released
- 2026-08-31
Pricing
- Input
- $0.10/Mtok
- Output
- $0.15/Mtok
- Model ID
ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b
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