Granite 4.2 8B

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ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b

IBM Granite · 131K context · text → text · Aug 2026 · 3 upstreams

Granite 4.2 8B is the mid-size dense reasoning model in IBM's Granite 4.2 family, with full, low-effort, and non-thinking modes, tool calling, and a 131K-token context window.

Bring your own keyAnyRouter has no platform route for Granite 4.2 8B. Requests use your key and bill your provider account. AnyRouter adds no fee.

context: 131K
input / 1M (list): $0.06
output / 1M (list): $0.25
routes: 3
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Details

Owner: IBM Granite
Kind: Chat
Released: Aug 2026
Context: 131K
Data policy: Provider retention
Endpoint: /api/v1/chat/completions

Quick start

Code

POST /api/v1/chat/completionsSDK docs

import osfrom openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI(    api_key=os.environ["ANYROUTER_API_KEY"],    base_url="https://anyrouter.dev/api/v1",) resp = client.chat.completions.create(    model="ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b",    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Say hi in 3 words."}],)print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

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