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granite 4.2 3b

ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b
Open Source · chat · open-weights
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Intelligence
9.1
Context
512K
Max output
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Weights
Open
API $/1M
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Modalities
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Released
07 Aug 2026
Intelligence Index via Artificial Analysis · 0–100, higher is better
License: apache-2.0 · ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b
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IBM Granite 4.2 3B: 512K context open-weights chat model

Granite 4.2 3B is a 3-billion-parameter decoder-only language model from IBM with a 512K token context window, released under the Apache 2.0 license for commercial and research use. The model supports long documents, multi-turn conversations, and complex agentic workflows in a compact footprint.

What's new
  • 512K context window for long document processing
  • Decoder-only dense transformer architecture
  • Apache 2.0 licensed for open commercial and research use
  • Part of the Granite 4.2 family from IBM
Best for
Long document processing and retrievalMulti-turn conversational workflowsAgentic task automation
Sources

Source: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b