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,...
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Measured against all 401 chat models CoreAI serves, IBM: Granite 4.2 8B sits at #281 for context capacity — 131K tokens, roughly 98,304 words or 197 pages of text in a single conversation. On price, it is the #54 cheapest of 131 budget-tier models by input cost. Released 2026-08-31, it is one of the 2 newest additions to the catalog. It supports step-by-step reasoning (thinking mode).
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A typical question (about 1,000 tokens in, 500 out) runs $0.00017 on IBM: Granite 4.2 8B's raw per-token rates; a heavy session with a 50K-token document costs about $0.006. On CoreAI you don't juggle these numbers — one subscription covers IBM: Granite 4.2 8B and 300+ other models under a plan usage limit, with no API keys. See plans.
IBM: Granite 4.2 8B handles 131K tokens of context — roughly 98,304 words, or about 197 pages of text in one conversation.
IBM: Granite 4.2 8B's underlying rates are $0.1 per 1M input tokens and $0.15 per 1M output tokens. On CoreAI it is included in one subscription alongside 300+ models, so there is no per-token billing to manage.
No — IBM: Granite 4.2 8B is text-only. If you need image understanding, its budget-tier peers with vision are listed in the comparison table above.
Yes. IBM: Granite 4.2 8B can work through problems step by step before answering; on CoreAI you can toggle thinking mode per message.
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The closest alternatives on CoreAI are IBM: Granite 4.1 8B, Upstage: Solar Pro 3, Mistral: Mistral Nemo — similar tier and capability. The fastest way to choose is running one prompt through them side by side in CoreAI's Compare view.
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