Granite 4.2 8B: API pricing, context window and capabilities

Prices from official vendor price lists · October 2026

Granite 4.2 8B costs $0.06 per 1M input tokens and $0.25 per 1M output tokens, with a 131.1K context window. One of the cheapest models here — below 90% of the rating on output price. Suited to high volume, where a wrong answer is cheap to retry.

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Capabilities

API $/1M (in / out)

$0.06 / $0.25

Context window

131.1K tokens

Price / mo

API only

Overview Reviews

Granite 4.2 8B is an AI model from IBM, priced at $0.06 input and $0.25 output per 1M tokens. That places it in the budget tier of this rating — cheaper than 90% of the 205 priced models listed.

It holds 131.1K tokens in a single conversation. Capabilities recorded in this rating: text & chat, reasoning, tool calling, multilingual, open weights. Access is through the API rather than a consumer subscription.

API price$0.06 / $0.25per 1M tokens, in / out

Context131.1K tokenstokens per conversation

VendorIBMall models from this vendor

TierBudgetcheaper than 90% of models

Cost calculator

1M tokens/mo10M tokens/mo50M tokens/mo200M tokens/mo

Standard$0.20~~AED 1 per month~~

With batch −50%$0.10~~AED 0 per month~~

With caching on input$0.19~~AED 1 per month~~

Standard$2.02~~AED 7 per month~~

With batch −50%$1.01~~AED 4 per month~~

With caching on input$1.89~~AED 7 per month~~

Standard$10.13~~AED 37 per month~~

With batch −50%$5.06~~AED 19 per month~~

With caching on input$9.45~~AED 35 per month~~

Standard$40.50~~AED 149 per month~~

With batch −50%$20.25~~AED 74 per month~~

With caching on input$37.80~~AED 139 per month~~

Assumes a 1:3 input-to-output ratio, which is typical for chat and generation. Dirham figures use 3.6725 per dollar. Batch and caching discounts apply where the vendor offers them.

Compared with alternatives

How Granite 4.2 8B sits against its neighbours in this rating. Tap a card to open that model.

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

Cheaper

NVIDIA

$0.08 / $0.2262.1K tokens

GLM 5.3 Flash

Closest match

Z.ai

$0.075 / $0.251.31M tokens

Qwen3.5-Flash

Step up

Alibaba (Qwen)

$0.065 / $0.261M tokens

Good and poor fit

Good fit

Multi-step analysis, planning and code review, where the first plausible answer is often wrong.
General text generation and conversation across languages.

Poor fit

Anything requiring image input — this model does not accept it.

Related filters

Text & chat234 models for text generation and chat

Reasoning175 models that think before answering

Tool calling172 models that call your functions

MultilingualAll 245 models work beyond English

Open weights94 models you can download and self-host

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Frequently asked questions

How much does Granite 4.2 8B cost?

$0.06 / $0.25 per 1M tokens, input and output. In dirhams that is roughly AED 0.22 per 1M input tokens. Batch processing halves it where the vendor offers it.

What is the context window of Granite 4.2 8B?

131.1K tokens in a single conversation.

What can Granite 4.2 8B do?

In this rating it is recorded with: text & chat, reasoning, tool calling, multilingual, open weights.

Is Granite 4.2 8B a good choice?

It depends on the job. See the good-fit and poor-fit lists above, and compare against the neighbouring models before committing.

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