IBM Granite 4.2 8B is an Apache 2.0-licensed dense model with native step-by-step reasoning and specialized training for agentic work. It can plan before acting, sequence tools, navigate codebases, work in terminals, and verify results across coding, search, mathematics, science, and complex instruction-following tasks.
Added Aug 31, 2026
Model weightsContext Window
131.1K
Max Output
118.0K
Input Price (Auto)
$0.100/1M
Output Price (Auto)
$0.15/1M
Cache Read (Auto)
$0.050/1M
Capabilities
Benchmarks
Benchmarks
Performance metrics and benchmarks
Sourced from Artificial Analysis.
Intelligence Index
13.9
Coding Index
22.4
Agentic Index
3.8
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level scientific reasoning
63.1%
Better than 38% of models compared
HLE
Humanity's Last Exam
9.7%
Better than 53% of models compared
AA-LCR
Long context reasoning evaluation
45.0%
Better than 44% of models compared
GDPval-AA
Economically valuable tasks
7.5%
CritPt
Research-level physics reasoning
0.3%
Coding
SciCode
Python programming for scientific computing
31.5%
Better than 5% of models compared
Knowledge
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
Proportion of correctly answered questions
11.2%
AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate
Rate of incorrect answers among non-correct responses
32.0%
Last updated Sep 5, 2026, 12:00 AM
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