Granite 4.2 8B
IBM · Open Weight · rank 181 · bench-align-v5
Self-hostedCanonical idgranite-4-2-8b
Access typeOpen Weight
Blended $/1MUnavailable75% input / 25% output
Capability shape
Seven axes from the ranking source. A missing axis is drawn as a gap.
Runtime service evidence
Measured values with the date they were observed. Nothing is inferred from a sibling model or a provider claim.
Time to first token: latency to the first answer chunk (Artificial Analysis, via BenchLM). Reasoning models include thinking time, so values can run to tens or hundreds of seconds.
Evidence key: Observed
| Measurement | Value | Observed | Last good | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to first token | 29.18 s | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-17 | |
| Throughput | 70 tok/s | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-17 |
Regional or per-endpoint measurements appear only when the API supplies them; none are modelled here.
Endpoint and price matrix
Every published price component, including cache reads and writes.
Self-hosted listingIBM publishes Granite 4.2 8B under Apache 2.0 for self-hosting and does not publish a first-party hosted token rate for this exact checkpoint. We represent the open-weight row as self-host/free-per-token before infrastructure costs. OpenRouter currently exposes ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b as a hosted route, but its third-party rate is not used as canonical pricing.No hosted token rate was published for this model, so its per-token price is unavailable rather than zero.
Workload-aware monthly cost example
10 conversations per day × 8 messages × 22 active days, 1200 input and 400 output tokens per message, no cache. This uses the same calculator as the cost simulator, so an unavailable applicable rate makes the example unavailable too.
Modelled monthly costUnavailableThe applicable input rate is unavailable.
Modelled tokensUnavailable
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Benchmark record
27 matched benchmark rows with their published value, unit, and provenance.
Knowledge
| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A | 64.14 | 448 questions | Graduate level | GPQA: A Graduate-Level Google-Proof Q&A Benchmark |
| MMLU-Pro Massive Multitask Language Understanding Professional | 74.04 | Multiple subjects | Professional level | MMLU-Pro: A More Robust and Challenging Multi-Task Language Understanding Benchmark |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | 11.8 | Cross-benchmark intelligence index | Display-only external reference | Artificial Analysis |
| AA-GPQA Diamond Artificial Analysis GPQA Diamond | 63.1 | Graduate-level science questions | Graduate-level science reasoning | Artificial Analysis GPQA Diamond Benchmark Leaderboard |
| AA-HLE Artificial Analysis Humanity's Last Exam | 9.7 | Expert-level questions | Frontier expert reasoning | Artificial Analysis Humanity's Last Exam Benchmark Leaderboard |
| AA-Omniscience Index Artificial Analysis Omniscience Index | -17.2 | Knowledge questions | Broad factual knowledge | AA-Omniscience: Knowledge and Hallucination Benchmark |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy Artificial Analysis Omniscience Accuracy | 11.2 | Knowledge questions | Broad knowledge | Artificial Analysis model benchmarks |
| AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate Artificial Analysis Omniscience Hallucination Rate | 32.0 | Knowledge questions | Factuality | Artificial Analysis model benchmarks |
Coding
| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 Terminal-Bench 2.1 (provider run) | 20.6 | Terminal-based software-agent tasks | Professional software engineering | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 update |
| SWE-bench Verified Software Engineering Benchmark Verified | 47.67 | 500 verified issues | Professional software engineering | SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues? |
| LiveCodeBench v6 LiveCodeBench v6 | 73.2 | Fresh programming problems | Competitive programming level | LiveCodeBench official repository and release documentation |
| SWE-bench Pro SWE-bench Pro | 19.11 | 1,865 repository problems | Long-horizon professional engineering | SWE-Bench Pro: Can AI Agents Solve Long-Horizon Software Engineering Tasks? |
| SWE Multilingual SWE Multilingual | 30.78 | Multilingual software-engineering tasks | Professional software engineering | MiniMax M2.7: Early Echoes of Self-Evolution |
| SciCode Scientific Code Benchmark | 36.09 | — | — | BenchLM |
| AA Coding Index Artificial Analysis Coding Index | 22.4 | Cross-benchmark coding index | Display-only external reference | Artificial Analysis model leaderboards |
| AA-SciCode Artificial Analysis SciCode | 31.5 | Scientific coding subproblems | Scientific programming | Artificial Analysis SciCode Benchmark Leaderboard |
Mathematics
| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIME 2025 American Invitational Mathematics Examination 2025 | 86.67 | 15 problems | High school olympiad level | American Invitational Mathematics Examination |
| HMMT Feb 2025 Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament February 2025 | 78.3 | Competition math problems | Olympiad-style mathematics | Qwen3.6 launch benchmarks |
Reasoning
| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AA-LCR Artificial Analysis Long Context Reasoning | 45.0 | Long-context reasoning tasks | Long-context reasoning | Artificial Analysis model benchmarks |
| CritPt Critical Physics Tasks | 0.3 | Research-level physics questions | Research-level physics reasoning | CritPt Benchmark Leaderboard |
Instruction Following
| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench Instruction Following Benchmark | 79.33 | — | — | BenchLM |
Agentic
| Benchmark | Value | Tasks | Difficulty | Provenance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 Terminal-Bench 2.1 (provider run) | 20.6 | Terminal-based software-agent tasks | Professional software engineering | DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 update |
| GDPval-AA GDPval-AA | 646 | Agentic real-world work tasks | Professional agentic workflows | DeepSeek-V4 Technical Report |
| GDPval-AA GDPval-AA normalized | 7.3 | Economically valuable tasks | Professional agentic workflows | Artificial Analysis model benchmarks |
| AA Agentic Index Artificial Analysis Agentic Index | 3.7 | Cross-benchmark agentic index | Display-only external reference | Artificial Analysis model leaderboards |
| BFCL v4 Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard v4 | 52.4 | Function-calling tasks | Advanced tool use | Trinity-Large-Thinking: Scaling an Open Source Frontier Agent |
| τ³-bench results τ³-Bench Tool-Agent-User Evaluation | 58.1 | Corrected customer-service tasks plus knowledge and voice evaluation modes | Long-horizon, multimodal, and knowledge-aware tool use | Official τ³-bench repository and release notes |
Lifecycle and limitations log
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