MODEL PROOF
Granite 4.2 8B
TRADE-OFF
A stored alternative scores higher and costs less, with capability losses.
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 · 66.8 points higher independent score · 21% lower measured price
- 118K → 32K max output
- no extended reasoning
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,316.8 ± 11.38 · 3,087 votes
- Context window
- 131.07K
- Maximum output
- 117.96K
- Input modalities
- text
- Output modalities
- text
- Published input price
- $0.060 / 1M tokens
- Published output price
- $0.250 / 1M tokens
- Pricing kind
- fixed
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IBM: Granite 4.2 8B. Balanced workload. Alternative has a trade-off. Evidence as of 22 Sept 2026.
$0.060/M in, $0.250/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription. Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 scores higher and costs less — but you would give something up.
Every price dimension
| Input | $0.060/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $0.250/M |
| Cached input | $0.015/M |
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepInfra | $0.060 | $0.250 | bf16 | 99.99% |
| CoreWeave | $0.100 | $0.150 | bf16 | 99.72% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1316.8default |
|---|
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Capability
| Context window | 131K |
|---|---|
| Max output | 118K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-09-22 |
| Quality data | verified |
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,...
Questions this page answers
What does Granite 4.2 8B cost?
$0.060/M in, $0.250/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.
Does Granite 4.2 8B have an independent quality score?
Granite 4.2 8B has an LMArena score in this catalogue.
What beats Granite 4.2 8B?
Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 scores higher and costs less — but you would give something up.
Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Granite 4.2 8B?
No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.
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