MODEL PROOF
Granite 4.2 8B
BETTER VALUE OPTION
A stored alternative has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
gpt-oss-120b · Δ score 47.6 points · 40% lower measured price · $0.065 / 1M tokens
Gemma 3 27B is a further stored option with these losses: no extended reasoning
- Independent LMArena score
- 1,317.8 ± 11.09 · 3,237 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
Inspect complete billing conditions and endpoint terms below.
Price from DeepInfra: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at a declared precision that is not 4-bit (bf16), at its standard rate. The maker’s own precision is not known.
Every price dimension · USD per million tokens
| Input | $0.060/M |
|---|---|
| Output | $0.250/M |
| Cached input | $0.015/M |
| Cache write | Unknown/M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown/M |
| Reasoning | Unknown/M |
Who sells it
The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.
2 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions
Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.
| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepInfradeepinfra/bf16 Endpoint terms
| $0.060 | $0.250 | bf16 | 100.00% |
| CoreWeavecoreweave/bf16 Endpoint terms
| $0.100 | $0.150 | bf16 | 100.00% |
Independent scores
| LMArena Elo | 1317.8default |
|---|
LMArena Elo under CC BY 4.0. Absence of another board is not a score of zero.
Capability
| Context window | 131K |
|---|---|
| Max output | 117K |
| Input modes | text |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Open weights | Unknown |
Provenance
| Price source | openrouter.ai |
|---|---|
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| 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?
gpt-oss-120b has an equal-or-higher measured score and an equal-or-lower price.
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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