Granite 4.2 8B
by Ibm Granite
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 s
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Granite 4.2 8B
Added 3 Sept 2026
Overview
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,...
How to use / API access
Call via OpenRouter with model id `ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b`.
- openrouter ·
ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8bDocs
OpenRouter id: ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b
Benchmarks
- Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis): 11.1 index
- Coding Index (artificial-analysis): 22.4 index
- Agentic Index (artificial-analysis): 1.3 index
Notes
Granite 4.2 8B is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.
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