Granite 4.2 3B: API pricing, providers and specs
Granite 4.2 3B is a text model by IBM. One provider serves it: Hugging Face, at $0.12 /1M.
How Granite 4.2 3B compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.12 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 91% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- On LMArena's Text board it ranks #84 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 3B 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.
| Provider | Input | Output | Prompt caching | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Hugging Face | $0.03/1M | From$0.12/1M | — | — |
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- IBM
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- —
- Max output
- —
- Capabilities
- —
- Released
- Aug 7, 2026
- License
- Apache 2.0commercial use allowed
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 3.7B
- Arena score
- 1294Text
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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Granite 4.2 3B FAQ
The lowest price for Granite 4.2 3B is $0.12 /1M, at Hugging Face.
Yes. Granite 4.2 3B's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the Apache 2.0 license.
About 3.7B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
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