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          "The card documents the tool-calling format, the parser to use and three thinking modes",
          "IBM publishes a machine-readable disclosure of the training datasets",
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          "Structured output isn't documented",
          "The card's vLLM command still loads a Python plugin from the repository, which released vLLM no longer needs",
          "No knowledge cut-off on the card",
          "One inference provider, so an agent without the hardware has little choice"
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          "Thinking is on by default. Pass `enable_thinking` false to turn it off or `low_effort` true for short reasoning",
          "The context is 131,072 tokens. The card's 512K extension isn't documented",
          "Validate JSON output yourself, since structured output isn't documented",
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          "The ibm-granite organisation (209 members) isn't verified on the Hub, which the calibration doesn't require.",
          "Nothing is hosted for this listing, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.",
          "The changelog is the Hugging Face commit history, 15 commits from 7 August to 20 October 2026, most titled only \"granite-4.2\".",
          "www.ibm.com/.well-known/security.txt is present with PSIRT contacts and expires on 21 November 2026.",
          "Released on 25 August 2026 by the card and IBM's blog, which firstReleased uses. The repository and its weight files date from 7 August 2026, the date BATCH.md and the IBM family page used before 21 October."
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        "rankOf": 1518,
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          "Runs in llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers from IBM's own FP8, FP4, GGUF and MLX builds",
          "Plain Apache 2.0, ungated, signed with sigstore",
          "The card documents the tool-calling format, the parser to use and three thinking modes",
          "IBM publishes a machine-readable disclosure of the training datasets",
          "IBM answers most questions on the repository"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No safety results published for it",
          "Structured output isn't documented",
          "The card's vLLM command still loads a Python plugin from the repository, which released vLLM no longer needs",
          "No knowledge cut-off on the card",
          "One inference provider, so an agent without the hardware has little choice"
        ],
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          "Start it with `ollama run granite4.2:8b`, or `llama-server -hf ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja`",
          "With vLLM 0.32.0 or later leave out `--reasoning-parser-plugin`, since the parser is built in, and use `--tool-call-parser qwen3_coder`",
          "Thinking is on by default. Pass `enable_thinking` false to turn it off or `low_effort` true for short reasoning",
          "The context is 131,072 tokens. The card's 512K extension isn't documented",
          "Validate JSON output yourself, since structured output isn't documented",
          "IBM recommends Granite Guardian beside it to flag risky inputs and outputs"
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        },
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        },
        "provenanceScore": 88,
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            "name": "granite-4.2-8b",
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            "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b",
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            "name": "granite-4.1-8b-base",
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            "name": "granite-4.1-8b",
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            "name": "granite-4.1-3b-base",
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            "name": "granite-4.1-3b",
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            "name": "granite-4.0-h-350m-base",
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            "params": "350M (Hub safetensors count 340M)"
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            "name": "granite-4.0-h-350m",
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            "params": "350M (Hub safetensors count 340M)"
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            "name": "granite-4.0-h-1b-base",
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            "params": "1B (Hub safetensors count 1.46B)"
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            "name": "granite-4.0-h-1b",
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            "name": "granite-4.0-350m-base",
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            "params": "350M (Hub safetensors count 352M)"
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            "name": "granite-4.0-350m",
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            "params": "350M (Hub safetensors count 352M)"
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            "name": "granite-4.0-1b-base",
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            "params": "1B (Hub safetensors count 1.63B)"
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          {
            "name": "granite-4.0-1b",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-1b",
            "params": "1B (Hub safetensors count 1.63B)"
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          {
            "name": "granite-4.0-micro-base",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-micro-base",
            "params": "3.40B (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)"
          },
          {
            "name": "granite-4.0-micro",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-micro",
            "params": "3.40B (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)"
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          {
            "name": "granite-4.0-h-tiny-base",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-tiny-base",
            "params": "6.94B (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)"
          },
          {
            "name": "granite-4.0-h-tiny",
            "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-tiny",
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            "name": "granite-4.0-h-small-base",
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            "name": "granite-4.0-h-small",
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            "name": "granite-4.0-h-micro",
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            "name": "granite-4.0-tiny-preview",
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          {
            "name": "granite-4.0-tiny-base-preview",
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        ],
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      },
      "area": "models",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "International Business Machines Corporation (per IBM's naming guidance, as read for granite-guardian)",
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        "domainRegistered": "1986-03-19",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b/commits/main",
        "securityTxt": "valid",
        "checked": "2026-11-10",
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          "IBM's Granite docs page for 4.2 links the ibm-granite collection on Hugging Face and the GitHub repository, and the docs site says it is no longer updated. The domain date is carried from the granite-guardian check.",
          "The ibm-granite organisation (209 members) isn't verified on the Hub, which the calibration doesn't require.",
          "Nothing is hosted for this listing, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.",
          "The changelog is the Hugging Face commit history, 15 commits from 7 August to 20 October 2026, most titled only \"granite-4.2\".",
          "www.ibm.com/.well-known/security.txt is present with PSIRT contacts and expires on 21 November 2026.",
          "Released on 25 August 2026 by the card and IBM's blog, which firstReleased uses. The repository and its weight files date from 7 August 2026, the date BATCH.md and the IBM family page used before 21 October."
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        "category": "reach",
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          "b": "Memory 30, IBM's own 4-bit MLX build granite-4.2-8b-q4-mlx is 4.95 GB, and 4.95 GB × 1.2 = 5.9 GB, within 8 GB. Its Q4_0 GGUF is 5.06 GB and Ollama's library build granite4.2:8b (5.3 GB) fits 8 GB too. Runtimes 25, Released versions run the granite architecture in llama.cpp (granite, b12242), vLLM (GraniteForCausalLM in the v0.33.0 registry), SGLang (granite.py at v0.5.23), Transformers (v5.22.2) and Ollama (its own granite4.2 library entry, 8b tag). Builds 15, IBM publishes FP8, MXFP4 and NVFP4 safetensors builds, a GGUF repository with Q4_0 to Q8_0 and BF16 files, and 4-bit, 8-bit and BF16 MLX builds, so quantised builds at two precisions or more. Terms 15, Apache 2.0, an OSI-approved licence, with no use policy or other terms added on the card. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false for the BF16, FP8, MXFP4, NVFP4, GGUF and MLX repositories, so the files download with no account and nothing to accept. Hosted 0, Hugging Face maps one inference provider (DeepInfra, live), short of the two the line needs. 30 + 25 + 15 + 15 + 10 + 0 = 95."
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          "b": "Model card 17, Intended use (best for), limitations (ethical considerations and limitations), architecture, parameters (8B), context length (128K native) and 12 tested languages are on the card. Training data 20, IBM's disclosure file for the 8B lists the datasets used in pre-training and post-training as machine-readable metadata, and the card describes the three training stages. Last change 20, the last commit, on 20 October 2026, replaced model.safetensors.index.json (titled \"granite-4.2 index file fix\"), 21 days before this check. Responsiveness 20, Of the 5 discussions that aren't pull requests (13 September to 5 November 2026), 4 have a reply from an ibm-granite member. Version policy 5, Granite 4.1 8B stays in its own repository and 4.2 came out in new ones. File health 10, Config, template and card agree on the architecture, the 131,072-token context and the thinking switch. 17 + 20 + 20 + 20 + 5 + 10 = 92."
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        "a": "no",
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        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "llms.txt"
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        "name": "Last release"
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        "name": "Terms last updated"
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        "a": "no document linked",
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        "answer": "Granite 4.2 30B and Granite 4.2 8B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). Granite 4.2 8B leads on reach and documentation and upkeep.",
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        "also": null,
        "goodFor": "Agents that want a documented, signed, Apache 2.0 reasoning model with tool calling on a 24 GB card",
        "slug": "granite-4-2-30b",
        "watchFor": "No safety results published for it"
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        "aheadOn": [
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        "also": null,
        "goodFor": "Agents that want a documented, signed, Apache 2.0 reasoning model with tool calling on a 16 GB machine",
        "slug": "granite-4-2-8b",
        "watchFor": "No safety results published for it"
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    "job": {
      "capability": "model.open-weights",
      "name": "Open-weight models you run yourself"
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    "others": [
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        "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agents-a1-4b-vs-granite-4-2-30b.json",
        "title": "Agents-A1-4B vs Granite 4.2 30B",
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agents-a1-4b-vs-granite-4-2-30b"
      },
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      "granite-4-2-30b": "IBM's largest reasoning cousin, with the same strengths as the 3B. It runs in every runtime we count from IBM's own builds on a 24 GB card, is signed, plain Apache 2.0, and comes with a disclosure of its training data. No safety results are published and structured output isn't documented.",
      "granite-4-2-8b": "IBM's mid-size reasoning cousin, with the same strengths as the 3B. It runs in every runtime we count from IBM's own builds on a 16 GB machine, is signed, plain Apache 2.0, and comes with a disclosure of its training data. No safety results are published and structured output isn't documented."
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  "markdown": "Granite 4.2 30B and Granite 4.2 8B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). Granite 4.2 8B leads on reach and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\n- Granite 4.2 30B: grade C, 61/100, rank #65 of 160 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-30b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/granite-4-2-30b.json\n- Granite 4.2 8B: grade C, 61/100, rank #66 of 160 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-8b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/granite-4-2-8b.json\n- Best open-weight models you download and run yourself for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/open-weights/index.md\n- All 6359 open weights comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-weights/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Granite 4.2 30B (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that want a documented, signed, Apache 2.0 reasoning model with tool calling on a 24 GB card\n\nWatch for: No safety results published for it\n\n### Granite 4.2 8B (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that want a documented, signed, Apache 2.0 reasoning model with tool calling on a 16 GB machine\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 95 against 90\n- Documentation and upkeep, 92 against 87\n\nWatch for: No safety results published for it\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reach: Granite 4.2 8B +5\n\n- Granite 4.2 30B (90): Memory 25, IBM's own 4-bit MLX build granite-4.2-30b-q4-mlx is 16.47 GB, and 16.47 GB × 1.2 = 19.8 GB, which fits 24 GB but not 16 GB. Its Q4_0 GGUF is 16.58 GB and Ollama's library build granite4.2:30b 18 GB, the same band. Runtimes 25, Released versions run the granite architecture in llama.cpp (granite, b12242), vLLM (GraniteForCausalLM in the v0.33.0 registry), SGLang (granite.py at v0.5.23), Transformers (v5.22.2) and Ollama (its own granite4.2 library entry, 30b tag). Builds 15, IBM publishes FP8, MXFP4 and NVFP4 safetensors builds, a GGUF repository with Q4_0 to Q8_0 and BF16 files, and 4-bit, 8-bit and BF16 MLX builds, so quantised builds at two precisions or more. Terms 15, Apache 2.0, an OSI-approved licence, with no use policy or other terms added on the card. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false for the BF16, FP8, MXFP4, NVFP4, GGUF and MLX repositories, so the files download with no account and nothing to accept. Hosted 0, Hugging Face maps one inference provider (DeepInfra, live), short of the two the line needs. 25 + 25 + 15 + 15 + 10 + 0 = 90.\n- Granite 4.2 8B (95): Memory 30, IBM's own 4-bit MLX build granite-4.2-8b-q4-mlx is 4.95 GB, and 4.95 GB × 1.2 = 5.9 GB, within 8 GB. Its Q4_0 GGUF is 5.06 GB and Ollama's library build granite4.2:8b (5.3 GB) fits 8 GB too. Runtimes 25, Released versions run the granite architecture in llama.cpp (granite, b12242), vLLM (GraniteForCausalLM in the v0.33.0 registry), SGLang (granite.py at v0.5.23), Transformers (v5.22.2) and Ollama (its own granite4.2 library entry, 8b tag). Builds 15, IBM publishes FP8, MXFP4 and NVFP4 safetensors builds, a GGUF repository with Q4_0 to Q8_0 and BF16 files, and 4-bit, 8-bit and BF16 MLX builds, so quantised builds at two precisions or more. Terms 15, Apache 2.0, an OSI-approved licence, with no use policy or other terms added on the card. Download 10, the Hub API reports gated false for the BF16, FP8, MXFP4, NVFP4, GGUF and MLX repositories, so the files download with no account and nothing to accept. Hosted 0, Hugging Face maps one inference provider (DeepInfra, live), short of the two the line needs. 30 + 25 + 15 + 15 + 10 + 0 = 95.\n\n### Documentation and upkeep: Granite 4.2 8B +5\n\n- Granite 4.2 30B (87): Model card 17, Intended use (best for), limitations (ethical considerations and limitations), architecture, parameters (30B), context length (128K native) and 12 tested languages are on the card. Training data 20, IBM's disclosure file for the 30B lists the datasets used in pre-training and post-training as machine-readable metadata, and the card describes the three training stages. Last change 15, the last commit to the repository was on 4 September 2026, 67 days before this check. Responsiveness 20, Of the 4 discussions that aren't pull requests (28 August to 3 November 2026), 3 have a reply from an ibm-granite member. Version policy 5, Granite 4.1 30B stays in its own repository and 4.2 came out in new ones. File health 10, Config, template and card agree on the architecture, the 131,072-token context and the thinking switch. 17 + 20 + 15 + 20 + 5 + 10 = 87.\n- Granite 4.2 8B (92): Model card 17, Intended use (best for), limitations (ethical considerations and limitations), architecture, parameters (8B), context length (128K native) and 12 tested languages are on the card. Training data 20, IBM's disclosure file for the 8B lists the datasets used in pre-training and post-training as machine-readable metadata, and the card describes the three training stages. Last change 20, the last commit, on 20 October 2026, replaced model.safetensors.index.json (titled \"granite-4.2 index file fix\"), 21 days before this check. Responsiveness 20, Of the 5 discussions that aren't pull requests (13 September to 5 November 2026), 4 have a reply from an ibm-granite member. Version policy 5, Granite 4.1 8B stays in its own repository and 4.2 came out in new ones. File health 10, Config, template and card agree on the architecture, the 131,072-token context and the thinking switch. 17 + 20 + 20 + 20 + 5 + 10 = 92.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Granite 4.2 30B | Granite 4.2 8B | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 90 | 95 | Granite 4.2 8B +5 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 55 | 55 | even |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 85 | 85 | even |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 87 | 92 | Granite 4.2 8B +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **61 · C** | **61 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Granite 4.2 30B | Granite 4.2 8B |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | IBM | IBM |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports |  |  |\n| Auth | None | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-09-04 | 2026-10-20 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Granite 4.2 30B.** IBM's largest reasoning cousin, with the same strengths as the 3B. It runs in every runtime we count from IBM's own builds on a 24 GB card, is signed, plain Apache 2.0, and comes with a disclosure of its training data. No safety results are published and structured output isn't documented.\n\n**Granite 4.2 8B.** IBM's mid-size reasoning cousin, with the same strengths as the 3B. It runs in every runtime we count from IBM's own builds on a 16 GB machine, is signed, plain Apache 2.0, and comes with a disclosure of its training data. No safety results are published and structured output isn't documented.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Granite 4.2 30B\n\n1. Start it with `ollama run granite4.2:30b`, or `llama-server -hf ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja`\n2. With vLLM 0.32.0 or later leave out `--reasoning-parser-plugin`, since the parser is built in, and use `--tool-call-parser qwen3_coder`\n3. Thinking is on by default. Pass `enable_thinking` false to turn it off or `low_effort` true for short reasoning\n4. The context is 131,072 tokens. The card's 512K extension isn't documented\n5. Validate JSON output yourself, since structured output isn't documented\n6. IBM recommends Granite Guardian beside it to flag risky inputs and outputs\n\n### Granite 4.2 8B\n\n1. Start it with `ollama run granite4.2:8b`, or `llama-server -hf ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja`\n2. With vLLM 0.32.0 or later leave out `--reasoning-parser-plugin`, since the parser is built in, and use `--tool-call-parser qwen3_coder`\n3. Thinking is on by default. Pass `enable_thinking` false to turn it off or `low_effort` true for short reasoning\n4. The context is 131,072 tokens. The card's 512K extension isn't documented\n5. Validate JSON output yourself, since structured output isn't documented\n6. IBM recommends Granite Guardian beside it to flag risky inputs and outputs\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Granite 4.2 30B or Granite 4.2 8B?\n\nGranite 4.2 30B and Granite 4.2 8B score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). Granite 4.2 8B leads on reach and documentation and upkeep.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-30b-vs-granite-4-2-8b.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-30b-vs-granite-4-2-8b.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"granite-4-2-30b\", \"b\": \"granite-4-2-8b\"}`. 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