Granite 4.2 8B

ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-20260831

IBM Granite 4.2 8B is a text-to-text model with a 131,072 token context window. It supports tool use and reasoning capabilities. The model's weights are open and it was released on August 24, 2026.

  • tool use
  • structured outputs
  • reasoning
  • open-weight

At a glance

provideribm-granite
releasedAug 25, 2026
context131K
input / M$0.060

Specifications

What the API gives you

Context window
131K tokens
Max output
118K tokens
Input price
$0.060 / 1M tokens
Output price
$0.25 / 1M tokens
Cache read
$0.015 / 1M tokens
Modalities
text → text
Knowledge cutoff
—
Released
Aug 25, 2026

Measured evidence

Public benchmark record

LMArena Creative Writing
1236 Elo2026-10-15
LMArena Instruction Following
1301 Elo2026-10-15
LMArena Long Query
1325 Elo2026-10-15
LMArena Text
1290 Elo2026-10-15
LMArena Text Factuality
1343 Elo2026-10-15

LMArena data licensed CC-BY-4.0. Aider (Apache-2.0) and SWE-bench (MIT) are open. Design Arena uses blind human preference.

Open-weight model on Hugging Face.

Task evidence

How broad is the support?

Each status is exact to this model version and the selected task. Official release claims remain provisional.

  • Best LLM for Business WritingProvisional evidence

    67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Marketing CopyProvisional evidence

    67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Chat & RoleplayProvisional evidence

    67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Roleplay & CharacterProvisional evidence

    67% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Creative WritingProvisional evidence

    56% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for WritingProvisional evidence

    56% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 4 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

Show all 25 tasks
  • Best LLM for a General AssistantProvisional evidence

    50% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI) or LiveBench Instruction Following. 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Open-Weight LLM for Self-HostingProvisional evidence

    27% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Value LLMProvisional evidence

    25% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Logic & Problem SolvingProvisional evidence

    23% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI) or LiveBench Instruction Following. 5 of 5 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for RAG & Long ContextProvisional evidence

    22% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LMArena Document. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Document SummarizationProvisional evidence

    20% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LiveBench Instruction Following. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for SummarizationProvisional evidence

    20% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FACTS Grounding or LiveBench Instruction Following. 5 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Massive ContextProvisional evidence

    20% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LMArena Document or LongBench v2. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Fast SummariesProvisional evidence

    17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Literary TranslationProvisional evidence

    17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Everyday TranslationProvisional evidence

    17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for TranslationProvisional evidence

    17% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or LiveBench Language. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Grounded RAGProvisional evidence

    14% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from CRAG or SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI). 5 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for JSON & Schema OutputProvisional evidence

    12% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LiveBench Data Analysis. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Structured Data ExtractionProvisional evidence

    12% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from Berkeley Function Calling or LiveBench Data Analysis. 3 of 4 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best Cheap LLM for High VolumeProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Cheapest Capable LLMProvisional evidence

    10% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from LiveBench Instruction Following or Route reliability. 2 of 3 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Math & ReasoningProvisional evidence

    8% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI) or GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI). 7 of 7 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

  • Best LLM for Competition MathProvisional evidence

    7% of intended weighted task evidence across 1 independent source; broader independent confirmation is still missing from FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI) or OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI). 6 of 6 configured evaluation feeds currently have results.

Recommendation coverage

Where this model appears

Not currently included in a published recommendation. The task evidence panel above says exactly what is confirmed and what is still missing.

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