ibm-granite
IBM: Granite 4.2 8B
ibm-granite/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,...
- Type
- text
- Provider
- ibm-granite
- Model ID
- ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b
- Capabilities
- tools, reasoning
- Context window
- 131K tokens
- Self-hostable
- Yes — runs on your own GPU
- Input price
- $0.066 / 1M tokens
- Output price
- $0.28 / 1M tokens
Cloud price is billed from prepaid credits when a request fails over to the cloud. Open-weight models run free on GPUs you own — the gateway routes to your nodes first.
What it costs to run
cloud · 1M in + 1M out
$0.34
$0.066 for a million input tokens plus $0.28 for a million output tokens, billed from credits only when a request fails over to the cloud.
your hardware
$0 / token
Served from a workstation or on-prem server you own, there is no per-token fee — the marginal cost is power.
Run it on your own hardware
Estimated GPU memory for IBM: Granite 4.2 8B (8.0B parameters), for the weights alone — add room for the context cache.
- Q4_K_M
- ~5.3 GBfits a 8 GB card
- Q8_0
- ~8.6 GBfits a 12 GB card
- FP16 / BF16
- ~15.7 GBfits a 16 GB card
Install the agent on the machine and it dials out to the gateway over a single WebSocket — no port forwarding or inbound firewall rules. Requests for this model go to your node first and fail over to the cloud only when it can't serve.
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Call IBM: Granite 4.2 8B through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
Serve it from hardware you own, with cloud failover when your nodes are busy or offline.
no credit card · 2 nodes free · openai-compatible
Frequently asked questions
- What is the context window of IBM: Granite 4.2 8B?
- IBM: Granite 4.2 8B accepts up to 131,072 tokens (131K) of context per request.
- How much does IBM: Granite 4.2 8B cost per million tokens?
- Through Wide Area Intelligence, IBM: Granite 4.2 8B costs $0.066 per 1M input tokens and $0.28 per 1M output tokens when served from the cloud, billed from prepaid credits. A workload of 1M input plus 1M output tokens costs $0.34.
- Can I run IBM: Granite 4.2 8B on my own hardware?
- Yes — IBM: Granite 4.2 8B is an open-weight model you can run on a workstation or on-prem server you own. At Q4_K_M it needs roughly 5.3 GB of GPU memory, plus room for the context cache — it fits a single 8 GB card. Wide Area Intelligence routes requests to your own nodes first and fails over to the cloud only when they can't serve.