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Granite 4.2 8B

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Neura Intelligence Index
37.1/ 100
Rank
#241
Confidence
medium
Benchmarks
5(13% coverage)

Overview

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, and non-thinking modes.

The model supports 12 languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Arabic, Czech, Italian, Korean, Dutch, and Chinese.

Capabilities

Text generation
Tool use / Function calling
Structured output
Extended reasoning
Prompt caching
Long context
Top-P sampling
Stop sequences
Deterministic seed
Log probabilities

Modalities

Input
Text
Output
Text

Technical Specifications

Context Window
131.1K tokens
Max Output
118.0K tokens
Tokenizer
Other
Uptime (24h)
9999.4%
Parameters
8000000000B
License
apache_2_0Open Weights
Country
🇺🇸US
Release Date
August 25, 20263w

Supported Parameters

frequency_penaltyinclude_reasoninglogit_biaslogprobsmax_tokensmin_ppresence_penaltyreasoningreasoning_effortrepetition_penaltyresponse_formatseedstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_ktop_logprobstop_p

Benchmark Performance

coding

BenchmarkScoreSource
SWE-bench Verified
47.7
verified
SciCode
36.1
verified
SWE-Bench Pro
19.1
verified

math

BenchmarkScoreSource
AIME 2025
86.7
verified

reasoning

BenchmarkScoreSource
GPQA Diamond
64.1
verified

Performance Over Time

Pricing

Per 1M tokens
Input$0.06
Output$0.25
Cache read$0.01
Added
August 31, 2026
Last synced 9/18/2026