granite 4.2 8b
ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b
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Intelligence
Context
512K
Max output
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Weights
Open
API $/1M
$0.06 / $0.25
Modalities
text
Released
07 Aug 2026
Intelligence Index via Artificial Analysis · 0–100, higher is better
License: apache-2.0 · ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b
AI summary
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IBM Granite 4.2 8B: Open-weights 8B language model for enterprise tasks
Granite 4.2 8B is an open-weights, 8-billion-parameter dense decoder-only model from IBM supporting text input and output with a 131k-token context window. Designed for enterprise applications including tool calling, RAG, code generation, summarization, classification, and extraction. The model ranks 31st on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index among 140 comparable models.
What's new
- Open-weights model released August 2026
- 131k-token context window supports extended documents
- Scores 20 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1
- Achieves 145 output tokens per second
- Licensed under Apache 2.0
Best for
Enterprise tool calling and function integrationRetrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflowsCode generation with fill-in-the-middle supportText summarization, classification, and extraction