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Granite 4.2 8B

IBMOpen weightsReasoningProvisionalReleased Aug 25, 2026Input: text
Compare with GPT-OSS 20BSource scores ↗OpenRouter ↗
Overall score
33.1
Rank 172 of 222 · 23.4–42.9
Context window
128K
128,000 tokens
Price per 1M tokens
$0.060 in · $0.25 out
Source: OpenRouter
Blended price
$0.11
3:1 input:output tokens
Output speed
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Not measured yet

Category scores

Scores per capability area with the model's rank among ranked models in that category.

  1. 1Instruction following#4286.5
  2. 2Knowledge58.6
  3. 3Reasoning55.9
  4. 4Coding#12518.5
Higher is better. #N is the model's rank in that category, where it is eligible to be ranked.

Benchmark results (13)

As reported in system cards, papers and public evaluations. Position compares this model with every other model reporting the same benchmark.

Coding

SWE-bench Verified47.7#88 of 98
SWE-bench Pro19.1#68 of 69
LiveCodeBench v673.2#30 of 46
SciCode36.1#18 of 23

Agentic & tool use

Terminal-Bench 2.120.6#66 of 68
τ³-bench results58.1#14 of 23
BFCL v452.4#12 of 19

Knowledge

GPQA64.1#88 of 117
MMLU-Pro74.0#48 of 67

Math

AIME 202586.7#18 of 38
HMMT Feb 202578.3#12 of 13

Multilingual

SWE Multilingual30.8#45 of 46

Instruction following

IFBench79.3#13 of 42

Pricing by source

USD per 1M tokens.

SourceInputOutputCached in
List price (OpenRouter)$0.060$0.25—
OpenRouter ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b$0.060$0.25$0.015

IBM publishes Granite 4.2 8B under Apache 2.0 for self-hosting and does not publish a first-party hosted token rate for this exact checkpoint. We represent the open-weight row as self-host/free-per-token before infrastructure costs. OpenRouter currently exposes ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b as a hosted route, but its third-party rate is not used as canonical pricing.

Arena ratings

Human-preference ratings from LMArena. Best-rated variant shown.

Text1320#234 · 3.3K votes

Open weights

From the Hugging Face repository.

Parameters
8.8B
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads (30 days)
90.5K

Speed

Measured by us through OpenRouter (median of trials).

Not measured yet.

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