Granite 4.2 8B: API pricing, providers and specs
Granite 4.2 8B is a text model by IBM. 6 providers serve it, from $0.25 to $0.265 /1M; the lowest price is at Deep Infra.
How Granite 4.2 8B compares
Against the 737 text models on the site priced the same way.
- Cheap for its class: at $0.25 /1M, its lowest price undercuts 80% of comparable models (median $1.10).
- Its 131K-token context window is larger than 21% of them (median 262K), about 200 pages of text.
- On LMArena's Text board it ranks #78 of the 120 comparable models scored there.
- 6 providers serve it; 69% of comparable models have fewer.
- Its weights are open under the Apache 2.0 license: commercial use allowed.
Granite 4.2 8B 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $0.06/1M | From$0.25/1M | $0.015/1M | 131K |
| DevPass (LLM Gateway) | $0.06/1M | From$0.25/1M | $0.015/1M | — |
 Deep Infra | $0.06/1M | $0.25/1M | $0.015/1M | — |
 Hugging Face | $0.06/1M | From$0.25/1M | — | — |
| Replicate | $0.06/1M | $0.25/1M | — | — |
| AI/ML API | $0.106/1M | $0.265/1M | $0.053/1M | — |
- Deep Infra$0.25
- Replicate$0.25
- OpenRouterFrom$0.25
- DevPass (LLM Gateway)From$0.25
- Hugging FaceFrom$0.25
- AI/ML API$0.265
Specs
- Type
- Text
- Maker
- IBM
- Inputs
- Text
- Outputs
- Text
- Context
- 131K≈ 200 pages of text
- Max output
- 118K
- Capabilities
- Prompt caching, JSON, Reasoning, Tool calling
- Released
- Aug 7, 2026
- License
- Apache 2.0commercial use allowed
- Open weights
- Yes, downloadable
- Parameters
- 8.8B
- Arena score
- 1319Text
Alternatives to Granite 4.2 8B
Same kind of model from other makers, at a similar price.
| Model | Lowest price | Context | Arena | Providers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granite 4.2 8Bthis model | $0.25/1M | 131K | 1319 | 6 |
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| Qwen3.8 Flash Next | $0.376/1M | 262K | 1628 | 5 |
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Granite 4.2 8B FAQ
The lowest price for Granite 4.2 8B is $0.25 /1M, at Deep Infra.
Deep Infra, at $0.25 /1M. 6 providers serve Granite 4.2 8B; the table above lists every one with its price.
Granite 4.2 8B reads up to 131K tokens per request and writes up to 118K.
Yes. Granite 4.2 8B's weights can be downloaded from its maker's Hugging Face page, under the Apache 2.0 license.
About 8.8B, as the safetensors metadata of its official Hugging Face repo states.
6 API providers serve Granite 4.2 8B. Compare their prices above, or open a provider to see everything it offers.
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