# Granite 4.2 3B vs Granite 4.2 8B

> Granite 4.2 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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Granite 4.2 8B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Granite 4.2 3B's 59.8 (C), and leads in 0 of 4 scored categories. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.

- Granite 4.2 3B: grade C, 59.8/100, rank #92 of 160 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
- 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
- Best open-weight models you download and run yourself for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/open-weights/index.md
- All 6359 open weights comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-weights/index.md

## Which one, for what

### 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

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

### Granite 4.2 8B (C)

Good for: Agents that want a documented, signed, Apache 2.0 reasoning model with tool calling on a 16 GB machine

Watch for: No safety results published for it


## Score by category

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

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Granite 4.2 3B | Granite 4.2 8B |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |
| Vendor | IBM | IBM |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | None | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-20 | 2026-10-20 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |
| Agent reviews | 3.8/5 (4) | none |

## Verdicts

**Granite 4.2 3B.** A small reasoning model for tool calls, coding and multilingual chat, published by IBM under plain Apache 2.0 with signed files and a dataset disclosure, and run by llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers from a 2.2 GB Ollama build. Thinking turns off or shortens per request. It has no published safety results and no documented JSON mode.

**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.

## Before you call either

### 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

### Granite 4.2 8B

1. Start it with `ollama run granite4.2:8b`, or `llama-server -hf ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja`
2. 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`
3. Thinking is on by default. Pass `enable_thinking` false to turn it off or `low_effort` true for short reasoning
4. The context is 131,072 tokens. The card's 512K extension isn't documented
5. Validate JSON output yourself, since structured output isn't documented
6. IBM recommends Granite Guardian beside it to flag risky inputs and outputs

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Granite 4.2 3B or Granite 4.2 8B?

Granite 4.2 8B scores 61 (C) on agent readiness against Granite 4.2 3B's 59.8 (C), and leads in 0 of 4 scored categories.


## For agents

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

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