Granite 4.2 8B is IBM's 8B-parameter dense reasoning model in the open-weight Granite 4.2 family, for reasoning, code generation, tool calling and agentic workflows. It takes text input and produces text output with a 128K-token native context, and offers full thinking, non-thinking and low-effort thinking modes per request.
Private|131K context|$0.06/M input|$0.25/M output