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Granite 4.2 8B

by NanoGPT · family granite · listed Aug 2026RTW

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.

Current rates USD per 1M tokens

Input$0.10
Output$0.15
Cache read$0.05
Cache write—

Against the market

Input price vs. maker flagships ($/1M tokens)
Granite 4.2 8BGranite 4.2 8B: $0.10 per 1M tokens$0.10DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: $0.15 per 1M tokens$0.15Qwen3.8 Omni FlashQwen3.8 Omni Flash: $0.15 per 1M tokens$0.15Gemini 3.8 FlashGemini 3.8 Flash: $0.75 per 1M tokens$0.75GLM-5.3GLM-5.3: $1.40 per 1M tokens$1.40Claude Sonnet 5.5Claude Sonnet 5.5: $2.00 per 1M tokens$2.00GPT-6.1 SolGPT-6.1 Sol: $2.00 per 1M tokens$2.00Grok 4.7Grok 4.7: $2.00 per 1M tokens$2.00
Output price vs. maker flagships ($/1M tokens)
Granite 4.2 8BGranite 4.2 8B: $0.15 per 1M tokens$0.15Qwen3.8 Omni FlashQwen3.8 Omni Flash: $0.47 per 1M tokens$0.47DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp: $0.60 per 1M tokens$0.60Gemini 3.8 FlashGemini 3.8 Flash: $3.75 per 1M tokens$3.75GLM-5.3GLM-5.3: $4.40 per 1M tokens$4.40Grok 4.7Grok 4.7: $6.00 per 1M tokens$6.00Claude Sonnet 5.5Claude Sonnet 5.5: $10.00 per 1M tokens$10.00GPT-6.1 SolGPT-6.1 Sol: $10.00 per 1M tokens$10.00

On the record

Model id
ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b
Context window
131K tokens
Max output
118K tokens
Input modalities
text
Output modalities
text
Reasoning
yes
Tool calls
yes
Open weights
yes
Knowledge cutoff
—
Released
2026-08-31
Last updated
2026-08-31
Provider docs
docs.nano-gpt.com

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