IBM
Granite 4.2 8B
Granite 4.2 8B has a Quality Score of 20.2, ranking 126th among 262 scored models. Per 1M tokens, pricing is $0.060 input, $0.250 output, and $0.015 cached input. It accepts text input, outputs text, and has a 131,072 token context window. Its Reliability Score is 41.4, ranking 85th among 262 scored models, above average (total average: 33.3). Its Value Score is 20.8, low compared with the total Quality average of 26.7.
Quality Score20.2
Value Score20.8
Reliability41.4
Cache Discount75%
Model specification
- Reasoning
- reasoning
- Input modalities
- text
- Output modalities
- text
- Context window
- 131,072 tokens
- Weights
- open weights
Token prices USD per 1M tokens
- Input
- $0.060
- Output
- $0.250
- Cached Input
- $0.015
- Cached Output
- not available
- Cost per task
- $0.016
Capability
- Intelligence
- 19.6
- Coding
- 22.4
- Agentic
- 9.2
- Omniscience
- -17.2
- Correct
- 11.2%
- Blended price
- $0.048
Answer outcomes
Correct 11.2%Incorrect 28.4%Abstained 60.4%
Artificial Analysis benchmarks
- GDPval-AA v2
- 10%
- τ³-Banking
- 8%
- Terminal-Bench v2.1
- 18%
- SciCode
- 30%
- Humanity’s Last Exam
- 10%
- GPQA Diamond
- 63%
- CritPt
- 0%
- AA-Omniscience
- 41%
- AA-LCR
- 43%
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