Granite 4.2 8B pricing & price history
Granite 4.2 8B by IBM Granite costs $0.06 per 1M input tokens and $0.25 per 1M output tokens, with a 131K token context window.
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No price changes since tracking began on 2026-09-24. We check hourly.
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About Granite 4.2 8B
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,...
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How much does Granite 4.2 8B cost?
Granite 4.2 8B by IBM Granite costs $0.06 per 1M input tokens and $0.25 per 1M output tokens, with a 131K token context window. A typical request with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about $0.0002.
What is the context window of Granite 4.2 8B?
Granite 4.2 8B supports up to 131,072 tokens of context and up to 117,964 output tokens per request.
Has Granite 4.2 8B’s price changed?
No price changes recorded since ModelBank started tracking it on 2026-09-24.
Is Granite 4.2 8B being deprecated?
No retirement date has been announced for Granite 4.2 8B as of 2026-09-24.
What are cheaper alternatives to Granite 4.2 8B?
Cheaper options include gpt-oss-20b ($0.018/$0.09), Gemma 3 12B ($0.05/$0.15), Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B ($0.05/$0.20), Ling 3.0 Flash VL ($0.06/$0.18).