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Granite 4.2 8B: price, performance and context
Open Granite 4.2 8B by IBM costs $0.06 per 1M input and $0.25 per 1M output tokens, handles up to 131.1K tokens in one request (≈ 390 pages of text) and scores 11.1 points on the AgentKernel performance index, rank 147 of 212.
Privacy: zero data retention with 2 providers, not in the EU. Availability over the last 24 h: 100%.
Open in the interactive comparisonKey facts
- Licence
- Open weights: free to download and self-host
- Input / 1M tokens
- $0.06
- Output / 1M tokens
- $0.25
- Context window
- 131.1K tokens
- Max. output
- 118K tokens
- Performance index
- 11.1 points · rank 147 of 212
- Coding index
- 22.4 points · rank 93 of 119
- Agentic index
- 1.3 points · rank 72 of 91
- Cost at your usage
- $0.123 / month
- Knowledge cutoff
- n/a
- In the catalog since
- Aug 31, 2026
- Capabilities
- Reasoning, Tool Calling
What do you get for $10.00?
Rules of thumb from the cost calculator, base rates without caching or taxes.
| Task | Cost per task | For $10.00 |
|---|---|---|
| Chat repliesA question with a short history, a detailed answer | $0.00 | 70,000 |
| Email draftsBullet points in, a finished email out | $0.00 | 87,000 |
| Document summariesRead 10 pages, write a one-page summary | $0.00 | 31,000 |
| Code reviewsReview and comment on 500 lines of code | $0.001 | 17,000 |
| Book analysesAnalyse a 300-page book in one go | $0.007 | 1,500 |
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