{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "granite-4-2-3b", "name": "Granite 4.2 3B", "vendor": "IBM", "vendorUrl": "https://www.ibm.com/granite", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "Granite 4.2 3B is IBM's open-weight dense reasoning model of 3.7B parameters, post-trained from Granite 4.1 3B Base, with switchable thinking, tool calling and a 131,072-token context, published in BF16, FP8, FP4, GGUF and MLX under Apache 2.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/granite-4-2-3b.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-GGUF" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-fp8" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-nvfp4" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-q4-mlx" }, { "registry": "ollama", "name": "granite4.2:3b" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. None of IBM's 4.2 3B repositories is gated (checked 2026-10-21). The files carry a sigstore signature (model.sig) that IBM documents how to verify.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0. watsonx.ai lists Granite 4.1 models but not 4.2, and DeepInfra is the only inference provider Hugging Face maps for it. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 7.3 GB for the BF16 files and 2.2 GB for Ollama's Q4_K_M build (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "dense", "small", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "multilingual", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "fp8", "fp4", "gguf", "mlx", "signed", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-20", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 59.8, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 49, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 21, "interface": 85, "reach": 95, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 92 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "Agents on small hardware that want a permissive reasoning model for tool calls and coding, with thinking they can switch off", "strengths": [ "Apache 2.0 with nothing added, ungated, signed with sigstore in IBM's own organisation", "2.2 GB as Ollama's Q4_K_M build, with IBM's own FP8, FP4, GGUF and MLX builds", "Runs in llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers", "Tool format and parser documented for vLLM and SGLang, with several calls a turn", "Thinking that turns off or runs at low effort per request", "A machine-readable disclosure of the training datasets with sources and sizes" ], "weaknesses": [ "No safety results published for 4.2, and only general safety cautions", "No documented JSON or schema output", "The card's vLLM route loads a parser plugin from the repository", "Only one inference provider, and watsonx.ai doesn't list 4.2", "No knowledge cut-off, and Granite 4.1 3B carries no note that 4.2 replaced it" ], "agentNotes": [ "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", "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", "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", "Use temperature 1.0 and top_p 0.95 for every mode, as IBM requires", "Pass `enable_thinking` false for direct answers or `low_effort` true for short reasoning, through chat_template_kwargs on an OpenAI-compatible server", "Earlier turns' thinking is stripped by default (`truncate_history_thinking`), so pass it false to keep reasoning in multi-turn history", "For JSON, use the runtime's guided decoding, since IBM documents no JSON mode for 4.2", "Verify the files with `python -m model_signing verify sigstore` and IBM's identity, per IBM's signature guide" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 59.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 21, "interface": 85, "reach": 95, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 92 }, "provenanceScore": 87, "checked": { "categories": { "capability": "2026-10-21", "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "ollama run granite4.2:3b\n# or, with vLLM 0.32.0 or later:\nvllm serve ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b --max-model-len 131072 \\\n --reasoning-parser granite_thinking_parser \\\n --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder --enable-auto-tool-choice", "http": "curl http://localhost:11434/api/chat \\\n -d '{\"model\": \"granite4.2:3b\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/granite-4-2-3b" }, "sameCompany": [ "granite-embedding-small-english-r2", "granite-guardian", "granite-switch" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "IBM", "builtOn": "ibm-granite/granite-4.1-3b-base (IBM's own base checkpoint, post-trained; named on the card and in its metadata)", "params": "3.66B", "context": 131072, "goodFor": "Small dense reasoning model for tool calling, coding and multilingual chat, with thinking that is on, off or short per request.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "Ollama", "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "granite-4.2-3b-fp8", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-fp8", "who": "publisher", "precision": "fp8", "sizeGB": 4.19, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM" ] }, { "name": "granite-4.2-3b-nvfp4", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-nvfp4", "who": "publisher", "precision": "nvfp4", "sizeGB": 2.81, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM" ], "note": "GPTQ calibrated with LLM Compressor, per IBM's blog" }, { "name": "granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-mxfp4", "who": "publisher", "precision": "mxfp4", "sizeGB": 2.71, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM" ], "note": "GPTQ calibrated with LLM Compressor, per IBM's blog" }, { "name": "granite-4.2-3b-Q8_0", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-GGUF/blob/main/granite-4.2-3b-Q8_0.gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q8_0", "sizeGB": 3.89, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ] }, { "name": "granite-4.2-3b-Q4_K_M", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-GGUF/blob/main/granite-4.2-3b-Q4_K_M.gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 2.24, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "IBM's GGUF repository also holds Q2_K to Q6_K, Q4_0, Q4_1, Q5_0, Q5_1 and BF16 files; Q4_0 is the smallest 4-bit GGUF at 2.13 GB" }, { "name": "granite-4.2-3b-q4-mlx", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b-q4-mlx", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4", "sizeGB": 2.07, "memoryGB": 8, "format": "mlx", "runsOn": [ "mlx-lm" ], "note": "The smallest build at 4-bit or better. 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Size as Ollama shows it" }, { "name": "granite-4.2-3b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 7.33, "memoryGB": 12, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ] } ], "run": "ollama run granite4.2:3b", "runBuild": "ollama granite4.2:3b", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 8 }, "family": { "lab": "IBM (Granite)", "family": "Granite 4 (4.0, 4.1, 4.2)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#ibm", "others": [ { "name": "granite-4.2-8b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b", "params": "8B (Hub safetensors count 8.79B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.2-30b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-30b", "params": "30B (Hub safetensors count 29.28B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.1-8b-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b-base", "params": "8B (Hub safetensors count 8.38B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.1-8b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b", "params": "8B (Hub safetensors count 8.79B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.1-3b-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-3b-base", "params": "3B (Hub safetensors count 3.40B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.1-3b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-3b", "params": "3B (Hub safetensors count 3.40B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.1-30b-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-30b-base", "params": "30B (Hub safetensors count 28.87B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.1-30b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-30b", "params": "30B (Hub safetensors count 28.87B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-h-350m-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-350m-base", "params": "350M (Hub safetensors count 340M)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-h-350m", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-350m", "params": "350M (Hub safetensors count 340M)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-h-1b-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-1b-base", "params": "1B (Hub safetensors count 1.46B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-h-1b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-1b", "params": "1B (Hub safetensors count 1.46B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-350m-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-350m-base", "params": "350M (Hub safetensors count 352M)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-350m", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-350m", "params": "350M (Hub safetensors count 352M)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-1b-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-1b-base", "params": "1B (Hub safetensors count 1.63B)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-1b", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-1b", "params": "1B (Hub safetensors count 1.63B)" }, { "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)" }, { "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", "params": "6.94B (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-h-small-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-small-base", "params": "32.21B (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-h-small", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-small", "params": "32.21B (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-h-micro-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro-base", "params": "3.19B (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-h-micro", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro", "params": "3.19B (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-tiny-preview", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-tiny-preview", "params": "6.67B (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)" }, { "name": "granite-4.0-tiny-base-preview", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-tiny-base-preview", "params": "6.67B (Hub safetensors count; the name states none)" } ], "olderCount": 64, "unrestrictedCopies": 5 }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "International Business Machines Corporation (per IBM's naming guidance, as read for granite-guardian)", "domain": "ibm.com", "domainRegistered": "1986-03-19", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-3b/commits/main", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "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." ], "score": 87 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b.json" }, "answer": "Qwen3.8-Flash-Next scores 61.8 (C) on agent readiness against Granite 4.2 3B's 59.8 (C), and leads in 1 of 5 scored categories. Granite 4.2 3B leads on reach, risk, agent interface and documentation and upkeep.", "b": { "slug": "qwen3-8-flash-next", "name": "Qwen3.8-Flash-Next", "vendor": "Alibaba (Qwen team)", "vendorUrl": "https://qwen.ai", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is Alibaba's open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model and an experimental preview of the Qwen4 architecture, 125B parameters with 6B active plus a 51B n-gram embedding table, published on Hugging Face in BF16 and FP8.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-8-flash-next", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-8-flash-next.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-8-flash-next.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwen3-8-flash-next.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next", "license": "Qwen Community License 1.0 (custom, not an OSI licence). Free of charge, the model name shown in products above 100M monthly users or US$20M monthly revenue, and a separate licence from Qwen before commercial use by a Model as a Service or AI Work Assistant business", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP8" }, { "registry": "ollama", "name": "qwen3.8-flash-next" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. Neither repository is gated (checked 2026-10-21).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use under the Qwen Community License 1.0. A licensee whose group runs a Model as a Service or AI Work Assistant business (AI coding or office productivity products) needs a separate licence from Qwen, with no published price, before any commercial use beyond internal use. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 360.0 GB for the BF16 files, 185.5 GB for FP8 and 105 GB for Ollama's MLX build (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "moe", "multimodal", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "source-available", "safetensors", "fp8", "self-hosted", "preview" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-31", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 61.8, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 25, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 74, "interface": 70, "reach": 65, "risk": 45, "upkeep": 36 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A large sparse cousin with 6B active parameters for agentic coding and multimodal work, previewing Qwen's next architecture. It needs a 128 GB Mac for Ollama's MLX build or about 144 GB for the 4-bit GGUF, and Qwen Cloud serves it. The main risk is a licence that needs a separate deal for hosted-model and coding or office assistant businesses.", "bestFor": "Teams with a multi-GPU server or a 128 GB Mac who want Qwen's newest sparse architecture for agentic coding and multimodal work, and aren't a hosted-model or coding-assistant business.", "strengths": [ "Released support in llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers", "262,144 tokens of native context, several tool calls per turn, and thinking that turns off per request with three effort levels", "Safetensors only, a chat template in the repository and a SHA-256 for every weight file", "No gate on the download, and Alibaba's Qwen Cloud serves it for agents without the hardware" ], "weaknesses": [ "No build fits the reference machine's 107.4 GB, and Ollama's smallest Linux build is 120 GB", "The Qwen Community License requires a separate licence before commercial use by a model-as-a-service or coding or office assistant business", "No safety results, agent guidance, training data, limitations, languages or knowledge cut-off published", "Labelled an experimental preview, and Qwen has answered none of the 40 most recent discussions", "The tool-calling format is only in the template, and structured output isn't documented" ], "agentNotes": [ "On a 128 GB Mac start it with `ollama run qwen3.8-flash-next:125b-mlx` (105 GB, NVFP4), on Linux the smallest Ollama build is `qwen3.8-flash-next:125b-a6b-q4_K_M` at 120 GB, which won't fit a 107.4 GB GPU share", "On a server, `vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP8 --tensor-parallel-size 4 --max-model-len 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder`", "Use the qwen3_coder tool parser and the qwen3 reasoning parser, as Qwen's GitHub README does", "Thinking is on by default, pass `chat_template_kwargs` with `enable_thinking` false to skip it, and read the reasoning from `reasoning_content`, even though SGLang's cookbook says thinking can't be turned off", 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-flash-next-vs-qwen3-vl-2b-instruct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-flash-next-vs-qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct.json", "title": "Qwen3.8-Flash-Next vs Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-flash-next-vs-qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-flash-next-vs-qwen3-vl-32b-instruct.json", "title": "Qwen3.8-Flash-Next vs Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-flash-next-vs-qwen3-vl-32b-instruct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-flash-next-vs-qwen3-vl-4b-instruct.json", "title": "Qwen3.8-Flash-Next vs Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-flash-next-vs-qwen3-vl-4b-instruct" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-flash-next-vs-qwen3-vl-8b-instruct.json", "title": "Qwen3.8-Flash-Next vs 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-flash-next-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-flash-next-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next.json", "title": "Qwen3.8-Flash-Next vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-flash-next-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-flash-next-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Qwen3.8-Flash-Next vs ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-flash-next-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 53, "edge": "qwen3-8-flash-next", "granite-4-2-3b": 21, "key": "capability", "name": "Capability", "qwen3-8-flash-next": 74, "weight": 35 }, { "by": 30, "edge": "granite-4-2-3b", "granite-4-2-3b": 95, "key": "reach", "name": "Reach", "qwen3-8-flash-next": 65, "weight": 25 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "granite-4-2-3b", "granite-4-2-3b": 55, "key": "risk", "name": "Risk", "qwen3-8-flash-next": 45, "weight": 20 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "granite-4-2-3b", "granite-4-2-3b": 85, "key": "interface", "name": "Agent interface", "qwen3-8-flash-next": 70, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 56, "edge": "granite-4-2-3b", "granite-4-2-3b": 92, "key": "upkeep", "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "qwen3-8-flash-next": 36, "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "Qwen3.8-Flash-Next scores 61.8 (C) on agent readiness against Granite 4.2 3B's 59.8 (C), and leads in 1 of 5 scored categories. Granite 4.2 3B leads on reach, risk, agent interface and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "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.", "qwen3-8-flash-next": "A large sparse cousin with 6B active parameters for agentic coding and multimodal work, previewing Qwen's next architecture. It needs a 128 GB Mac for Ollama's MLX build or about 144 GB for the 4-bit GGUF, and Qwen Cloud serves it. The main risk is a licence that needs a separate deal for hosted-model and coding or office assistant businesses." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-3b-vs-qwen3-8-flash-next", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-3b-vs-qwen3-8-flash-next.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-3b-vs-qwen3-8-flash-next.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-3b-vs-qwen3-8-flash-next.min.md" }, "markdown": "Qwen3.8-Flash-Next scores 61.8 (C) on agent readiness against Granite 4.2 3B's 59.8 (C), and leads in 1 of 5 scored categories. Granite 4.2 3B leads on reach, risk, agent interface and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\n- 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\n- Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: grade C, 61.8/100, rank #31 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-8-flash-next.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwen3-8-flash-next.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 2870 open weights comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-weights/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Granite 4.2 3B (C)\n\nGood for: Agents on small hardware that want a permissive reasoning model for tool calls and coding, with thinking they can switch off\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 95 against 65\n- Risk, 55 against 45\n- Agent interface, 85 against 70\n- Documentation and upkeep, 92 against 36\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.8 against 2.0 out of 5\n\nWatch for: No safety results published for 4.2, and only general safety cautions\n\n### Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (C)\n\nGood for: Teams with a multi-GPU server or a 128 GB Mac who want Qwen's newest sparse architecture for agentic coding and multimodal work, and aren't a hosted-model or coding-assistant business.\n\nAhead on:\n- Capability, 74 against 21\n\nWatch for: No build fits the reference machine's 107.4 GB, and Ollama's smallest Linux build is 120 GB\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Granite 4.2 3B | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35% (35 this run) | 21 | 74 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next +53 |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 95 | 65 | Granite 4.2 3B +30 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 55 | 45 | Granite 4.2 3B +10 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 85 | 70 | Granite 4.2 3B +15 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 92 | 36 | Granite 4.2 3B +56 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **59.8 · C** | **61.8 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Granite 4.2 3B | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | IBM | Alibaba (Qwen team) |\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 | Qwen Community License 1.0 (custom, not an OSI licence). Free of charge, the model name shown in products above 100M monthly users or US$20M monthly revenue, and a separate licence from Qwen before commercial use by a Model as a Service or AI Work Assistant business |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-20 | 2026-08-31 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Agent reviews | 3.8/5 (4) | 2/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**Qwen3.8-Flash-Next.** A large sparse cousin with 6B active parameters for agentic coding and multimodal work, previewing Qwen's next architecture. It needs a 128 GB Mac for Ollama's MLX build or about 144 GB for the 4-bit GGUF, and Qwen Cloud serves it. The main risk is a licence that needs a separate deal for hosted-model and coding or office assistant businesses.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Granite 4.2 3B\n\n1. 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\n2. 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\n3. 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\n4. Use temperature 1.0 and top_p 0.95 for every mode, as IBM requires\n5. Pass `enable_thinking` false for direct answers or `low_effort` true for short reasoning, through chat_template_kwargs on an OpenAI-compatible server\n6. Earlier turns' thinking is stripped by default (`truncate_history_thinking`), so pass it false to keep reasoning in multi-turn history\n7. For JSON, use the runtime's guided decoding, since IBM documents no JSON mode for 4.2\n8. Verify the files with `python -m model_signing verify sigstore` and IBM's identity, per IBM's signature guide\n\n### Qwen3.8-Flash-Next\n\n1. On a 128 GB Mac start it with `ollama run qwen3.8-flash-next:125b-mlx` (105 GB, NVFP4), on Linux the smallest Ollama build is `qwen3.8-flash-next:125b-a6b-q4_K_M` at 120 GB, which won't fit a 107.4 GB GPU share\n2. On a server, `vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-FP8 --tensor-parallel-size 4 --max-model-len 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder`\n3. Use the qwen3_coder tool parser and the qwen3 reasoning parser, as Qwen's GitHub README does\n4. Thinking is on by default, pass `chat_template_kwargs` with `enable_thinking` false to skip it, and read the reasoning from `reasoning_content`, even though SGLang's cookbook says thinking can't be turned off\n5. `reasoning_effort` takes xhigh (default), medium or low, and any other value makes the template raise an error\n6. Send at most one system message and put it first, since the template raises an error otherwise\n7. Sampling per the card is temperature 1.0 and top_p 0.95 when thinking, temperature 0.7, top_p 0.8 and presence_penalty 1.5 without\n8. vLLM keeps the 51B n-gram table in host memory on 80 GB GPUs by default, per its recipe\n9. Validate JSON output yourself or use the runtime's guided decoding, since structured output isn't documented\n10. Read the Qwen Community License before serving it to others as an API or inside a coding or office assistant product\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Granite 4.2 3B or Qwen3.8-Flash-Next?\n\nQwen3.8-Flash-Next scores 61.8 (C) on agent readiness against Granite 4.2 3B's 59.8 (C), and leads in 1 of 5 scored categories. Granite 4.2 3B leads on reach, risk, agent interface and documentation and upkeep.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-3b-vs-qwen3-8-flash-next.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-3b-vs-qwen3-8-flash-next.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"granite-4-2-3b\", \"b\": \"qwen3-8-flash-next\"}`. 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