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Granite 4.2 8B

· verified October 3, 2026

public paid api open-weights reasoning local

Provider

Statuspublic

AA Intelligence Index11.1 (official, read October 3, 2026)

Released2026-08-31

Context window131K

ModalitiesText

API price $/1M (in / out)$0.06 / $0.25 (OpenRouter)

Speedn/a

AccessAPI $0.06/$0.25 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter · open weights · listed August 31, 2026

In one line

Granite 4.2 8B by IBM, measured by Artificial Analysis at 11.1 on the Intelligence Index, 22.4 on coding and 1.3 on agentic work. Added to WhichAI automatically from live data on October 3, 2026: no editorial review yet, so judge it by the numbers, not by a verdict. OpenRouter's description: “Granite 4.2 8B is a dense reasoning model from IBM.”

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