# Apertus v1.5 8B vs Granite 4.2 3B

> Apertus v1.5 8B scores 61 (C) to Granite 4.2 3B's 59.8 (C) for open-weight models you run yourself. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-21

Apertus v1.5 8B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Granite 4.2 3B's 59.8 (C), and leads in 1 of 4 scored categories. Granite 4.2 3B leads on reach and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- Apertus v1.5 8B: grade C, 61/100, rank #35 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/apertus-v1-5-8b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/apertus-v1-5-8b.json
- Granite 4.2 3B: grade C, 59.8/100, rank #57 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/granite-4-2-3b.json
- Best open-weight models you download and run yourself for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/open-weights/index.md
- All 2870 open weights comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-weights/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Apertus v1.5 8B (C)

Good for: Agents that want a fully open, multilingual 8B with image and audio input on one 24 GB GPU, and can run a publisher fork of vLLM.

Ahead on:
- Risk, 75 against 55

Watch for: No released runtime supports it, only Swiss AI's forks of vLLM and Transformers

### Granite 4.2 3B (C)

Good for: Agents on small hardware that want a permissive reasoning model for tool calls and coding, with thinking they can switch off

Ahead on:
- Reach, 95 against 40
- Documentation and upkeep, 92 against 84

Also in its favour:
- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.8 against 2.8 out of 5

Watch for: No safety results published for 4.2, and only general safety cautions


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Apertus v1.5 8B | Granite 4.2 3B | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Capability | 35%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 40 | 95 | Granite 4.2 3B +55 |
| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 75 | 55 | Apertus v1.5 8B +20 |
| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 85 | 85 | even |
| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 84 | 92 | Granite 4.2 3B +8 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **61 · C** | **59.8 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Apertus v1.5 8B | Granite 4.2 3B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |
| Vendor | Swiss AI Initiative (EPFL and ETH Zurich) | IBM |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | None | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0, with the Apertus Acceptable Use Policy (v1.5, 14 July 2026) accepted at the download gate | Apache-2.0 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-20 |
| Terms last updated |  | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models |  |  |
| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 3.8/5 (4) |

## Verdicts

**Apertus v1.5 8B.** A fully open 8B cousin, training data included, for multilingual chat and tool calls with images and audio in. It needs about 22 GB in BF16 and Swiss AI's own vLLM or Transformers fork, since no released runtime supports it. The main risks are a gated download with a policy to pass on and tools that fail with thinking on.

**Granite 4.2 3B.** A small reasoning cousin for tool calls, coding and multilingual chat that runs almost anywhere, from a 2.2 GB Ollama build to vLLM and SGLang, under plain Apache 2.0 with signed files and a dataset disclosure. Thinking turns off or shortens per request. It has no published safety results and no documented JSON mode.

## Before you call either

### Apertus v1.5 8B

1. Accept the terms on the card and set HF_TOKEN before downloading
2. Use Swiss AI's Docker image ghcr.io/swiss-ai/vllm_apertus_1.5_release, since stock vLLM and Transformers don't load Apertus1p5ForConditionalGeneration yet
3. Serve with `--chat-template-content-format string --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser apertus` for tools, and leave thinking off when you need tools
4. For thinking, set `--reasoning-parser apertus` and `--default-chat-template-kwargs.enable_thinking true`, and budget max tokens generously
5. Audio is resampled to 24 kHz and costs 40 tokens a second, and video must be passed as frames
6. Don't cast the loaded model with .half(), the image and audio tokenizers must stay in F32
7. If you redistribute the weights, the policy says you must pass it on and get the recipient's express assent

### Granite 4.2 3B

1. Start it with `ollama run granite4.2:3b`; set options.num_ctx in the request, since Ollama's default context is short and the model takes up to 131,072
2. With vLLM 0.32.0 or later, serve `ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b` with `--reasoning-parser granite_thinking_parser --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder --enable-auto-tool-choice`; that release has the parser built in, so the card's `--reasoning-parser-plugin ./granite_thinking_parser.py` isn't needed
3. With SGLang 0.5.18 or later, `--reasoning-parser auto --tool-call-parser auto` resolve to IBM's recommended parsers, and the reasoning comes back in reasoning_content
4. Use temperature 1.0 and top_p 0.95 for every mode, as IBM requires
5. Pass `enable_thinking` false for direct answers or `low_effort` true for short reasoning, through chat_template_kwargs on an OpenAI-compatible server
6. Earlier turns' thinking is stripped by default (`truncate_history_thinking`), so pass it false to keep reasoning in multi-turn history
7. For JSON, use the runtime's guided decoding, since IBM documents no JSON mode for 4.2
8. Verify the files with `python -m model_signing verify sigstore` and IBM's identity, per IBM's signature guide

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Apertus v1.5 8B or Granite 4.2 3B?

Apertus v1.5 8B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Granite 4.2 3B's 59.8 (C), and leads in 1 of 4 scored categories. Granite 4.2 3B leads on reach and documentation and upkeep.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apertus-v1-5-8b-vs-granite-4-2-3b.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apertus-v1-5-8b-vs-granite-4-2-3b.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "apertus-v1-5-8b", "b": "granite-4-2-3b"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare apertus-v1-5-8b granite-4-2-3b`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/apertus-v1-5-8b.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/granite-4-2-3b.json

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