IBM Granite 4.2 8B is an Apache 2.0-licensed dense model with native step-by-step reasoning and specialized training for agentic work. It can plan before acting, sequence tools, navigate codebases, work in terminals, and verify results across coding, search, mathematics, science, and complex instruction-following tasks.
Specification
most-agreed values
Context
131K
Max output
118K
Released
2026-08-31
Knowledge cutoff
—
Retires
—
Open weights
yes
Input
text
Output
text
Price
US dollars per million tokens · most-agreed
Input
$0.10
Output
$0.15
Cache read
$0.05
Available from 5 hosts
| Host | In $/M | Out $/M | Cache rd | Cache wr | Context | Output | Retires |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| kilo · ibm-granite | $0.06 | $0.25 | $0.015 | — | 131K | 118K | — |
| openrouter · ibm-granite | $0.06 | $0.25 | $0.015 | — | 131K | 118K | — |
| nano-gpt · ibm-granite | $0.10 | $0.15 | $0.05 | — | 131K | 118K | — |
| wandb · ibm-granite | $0.10 | $0.15 | $0.05 | — | 131K | 131K | — |
| wandb · wandb | $0.10 | $0.15 | $0.05 | — | — | — | — |
Price history
append-only observations · a listing writes a row only when its price moves
| Date | Host | Field | $/M |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-02 | kilo · ibm-granite | Cache read | $0.05 |
| 2026-09-04 | kilo · ibm-granite | Cache read | $0.015 |
| 2026-09-02 | openrouter · ibm-granite | Cache read | $0.05 |
| 2026-09-09 | openrouter · ibm-granite | Cache read | $0.015 |
| 2026-09-02 | kilo · ibm-granite | Input | $0.10 |
| 2026-09-04 | kilo · ibm-granite | Input | $0.06 |
| 2026-09-02 | openrouter · ibm-granite | Input | $0.10 |
| 2026-09-09 | openrouter · ibm-granite | Input | $0.06 |
| 2026-09-02 | kilo · ibm-granite | Output | $0.15 |
| 2026-09-04 | kilo · ibm-granite | Output | $0.25 |
| 2026-09-02 | openrouter · ibm-granite | Output | $0.15 |
| 2026-09-09 | openrouter · ibm-granite | Output | $0.25 |
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