Last refreshed 2026-10-05. Next refresh: weekly.
Why use Granite 4.2 8B on OpenRouter?
OpenRouter offers Granite 4.2 8B with pay-as-you-go pricing at $0.06/1M input tokens. OpenRouter is a multi-provider LLM aggregator offering unified API access to 300+ models from all major labs and emerging providers, with automatic failover for reliability.
Input / 1M
$0.060
Output / 1M
$0.25
Cache
read $0.015
Batch
Not sourced
Setup recipe
Docs fallbackInstall
Use the provider REST API or SDKAuth
Create a provider API keyCall
model: ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8bModel ID
ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8bRequest example
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ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b.Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b", not the LLMReference slug "granite-4.2-8b".
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $0.06 |
| Output tokens | $0.25 |
Capabilities
ReasoningJSON / Tool use
About Granite 4.2 8B
IBM Granite 4.2 8B (released 25 August 2026) is a dense decoder-only reasoning model (~8.8B params) post-trained from Granite-4.1-8B-Base with built-in <think> reasoning, tool calling, 128K native context (512K extension) and 12 tested languages. Apache 2.0; served on DeepInfra per HF provider mapping.
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Model Specs
Released2026-08-25
Parameters8B
Context128K
ArchitectureDecoder Only