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Granite 4.2 30B: API pricing, providers and specs

Textby IBMApache 2.0Released Aug 7, 2026

Granite 4.2 30B is a text model by IBM. One provider serves it: Hugging Face, at $0.65 /1M.

Lowest price$0.65/1Mat Hugging Face
Maker's price—The maker does not sell it
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How Granite 4.2 30B compares

Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.

  • Mid-priced: its lowest price is $0.65 /1M against a median of $1.10; 41% of comparable models cost less.
  • On LMArena's Text board it ranks #57 of the 120 comparable models scored there.
  • 1 providers serve it; 0% of comparable models have fewer.
  • Its weights are open under the Apache 2.0 license: commercial use allowed.

Granite 4.2 30B prices by provider

Every provider's list price, read from its own price page or API. A price marked “from” changes with context length, resolution or mode.

ProviderInputOutputPrompt cachingContext
Hugging Face$0.16/1MFrom$0.65/1M——
Prices in US dollars, updated daily from each provider. Prices last checked Oct 25, 2026.

Specs

Type
Text
Maker
IBM
Inputs
Text
Outputs
Text
Context
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Max output
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Capabilities
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Released
Aug 7, 2026
License
Apache 2.0commercial use allowed
Open weights
Yes, downloadable
Parameters
29B
Arena score
1361Text
Monthly searches
2K
Get the weightsHugging Face279K downloads in 30 days

Alternatives to Granite 4.2 30B

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ModelLowest priceContextArenaProviders
Granite 4.2 30Bthis model$0.65/1M—13611
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GLM-5.2$1.80/1M1M160444
Grok Build 0.1$1.60/1M256K—18
Claude Haiku 5.5$0.30/1M1M158527
MiMo-V2.6-Pro$0.696/1M1.05M162521

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