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granite-4.2-8b

SIZE8.8B

44Quality

Text

Downloads92K/mo

Likes110

Language model from IBM, 8.8B parameters.

Open weightsApache 2.0969/1044

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granite-4.2-8b

Language model from IBM, 8.8B parameters.

ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b

Type: Text
Quality: 44 · Top 56% on the LMArena Text
Parameters: 8.8B (8,791,592,960)
Downloads: 92K in the last 30 days
Likes: 110
Access to weights: Open download
On Hugging Face since: Aug 7, 2026
Takes in: Text
Puts out: Text
Access: Open weights
License: Apache 2.0
Rarity: Promo
Set number: 969/1044

Open on Hugging Face Quality 44 Where to run it 7 Evolution 3/3 Race it 36 tok/s Meet its creature Battle Hy3 preview

License read from the model’s Hugging Face card. Stats from IBM’s official Hugging Face account, refreshed daily.

How good is it?

Public leaderboard scores for granite-4.2-8b, refreshed daily from Epoch AI and LMArena.

Top 56% of the 416 models on the LMArena Text: #234.

Quality is the share of a leaderboard’s models this one beats, from 0 to 100. Chat models are rated on Epoch AI’s Capabilities Index when it lists them, otherwise on LMArena; image and video models on LMArena’s image and video arenas.

Leaderboards

LMArena Text#234 of 416
People compare two anonymous answers and vote for the better one.1,320 rating
LMArena Text · Coding#195 of 411
The text arena’s coding prompts only.1,379 rating
LMArena Text · Creative writing#283 of 414
The text arena’s creative writing prompts only.1,236 rating

Scores from LMArena, licensed CC BY 4.0. Boards list models under their own names, so a close match is shown with the name it was scored under. Credits

Where to run it

6 providers sell granite-4.2-8b through an API, and 1 Hugging Face host serves it. Prices are per million tokens, cheapest first.

CheapestCoreWeave$0.10 in · $0.15 out
Fastest on Hugging FaceDeepInfra36 tokens/s

API providers

Provider	Input	Output	Context
CoreWeaveCheapest paid`ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b`	$0.10	$0.15	131K
NanoGPT`ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b`	$0.10	$0.15	131K
DevPass (LLM Gateway)`granite-4.2-8b`	$0.06	$0.25	131K
Kilo Gateway`ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b`	$0.06	$0.25	131K
LLM Gateway`deepinfra/granite-4.2-8b`	$0.06	$0.25	131K
OpenRouter`ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b`	$0.06	$0.25	131K

Hugging Face Inference Providers

Host	Input	Output	Context	Speed	First token
DeepInfraTools	$0.06	$0.25	131K	36 tok/s	0.3s

From models.dev and Hugging Face, checked daily. Resellers’ listings can lag behind their price pages, so confirm with the provider before you commit.

granite-4.2-8b

granite-4.2-8b

How good is it?

Leaderboards

Where to run it

API providers

Hugging Face Inference Providers

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