Granite 4.2 8B specs, prices, where it runs and its benchmark standing

Name: Granite 4.2 8B
Author: IBM

open weights · top 10 on 0 of 1 · released Aug 25, 2026

Provider: IBM
Release date: Aug 25, 2026; Boards
Parameters: 8.8B total; Hugging Face
Modalities: Text to Text; OpenRouter
License: Apache 2.0; Hugging Face
Context window: 131K tokens; OpenRouter
Hosting: OpenRouter · self-host: weights on Hugging Face
Hardware: Estimate: about 18 GB of weights as published (BF16), about 8.8 GB at 8-bit, about 4.4 GB at 4-bit, plus memory for the context; Hugging Face config
Weights: Open weights
Benchmarks: 1 board captured

Rank	Board	Category	Score	Of	Over time
73	AA SpeedSpeed · as “Granite 4.2 8B” Unverified	Speed	46 tok/s	84

Versions and release history

5 versions in this line since Dec 6, 2024, from Pricing, OpenRouter and the boards.

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