{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "granite-4-2-8b", "name": "Granite 4.2 8B", "vendor": "IBM", "vendorUrl": "https://www.ibm.com/granite", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "Granite 4.2 8B is IBM's open-weight dense reasoning model of 8.8B parameters, post-trained from Granite 4.1 8B 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-4-2-8b", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-8b.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-8b.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/granite-4-2-8b.json", "dns": "granite-4-2-8b.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-GGUF" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-fp8" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-nvfp4" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-q4-mlx" }, { "registry": "ollama", "name": "granite4.2:8b" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The BF16 repository and IBM's FP8, MXFP4, NVFP4, GGUF and MLX repositories are not gated (checked 2026-11-10).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 17.6 GB for the BF16 files, 5.3 GB for IBM's Q4_K_M GGUF or 5.0 GB for its 4-bit MLX build (checked 2026-11-10).", "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 2026-11-10).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-10" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "dense", "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": 61, "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": 1518, "categoryRank": 53, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "interface": 85, "reach": 95, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 92 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-11-10" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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. 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Pass `enable_thinking` false to turn it off or `low_effort` true for short reasoning", "The context is 131,072 tokens. 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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": 88 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-8b.json" }, "answer": "Qwen3.8-27B scores 68.6 (B) on agent readiness against Granite 4.2 8B's 61 (C), and leads in 0 of 4 scored categories. Granite 4.2 8B leads on reach, agent interface and documentation and upkeep.", "b": { "slug": "qwen3-8-27b", "name": "Qwen3.8-27B", "vendor": "Alibaba (Qwen team)", "vendorUrl": "https://qwen.ai", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "Qwen3.8-27B is Alibaba's open-weight dense vision-language model of 27B parameters, with thinking on by default and a 262,144-token context, published on Hugging Face in BF16 and FP8 under Apache 2.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-8-27b", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-8-27b.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-8-27b.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwen3-8-27b.json", "dns": "qwen3-8-27b.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8" }, { "registry": "ollama", "name": "qwen3.8" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The repository is not gated (checked 2026-10-20).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0. The card says a hosted version on Qwen Cloud is coming soon. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 55.6 GB for the BF16 files and 18 GB for Ollama's default build (checked 2026-10-20).", "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 2026-10-20).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-20" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "dense", "multimodal", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "fp8", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-14", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 68.6, "grade": "B", "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": 1518, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 70, "interface": 70, "reach": 90, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 36 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A dense cousin for coding and agent work with image and video input that runs almost anywhere. Ollama's 4-bit build needs about 22 GB, and seven providers host it for agents without the hardware. The main risk is that nobody at Alibaba answers, there are no safety results or agent guidance, and the tool format is only in the template.", "bestFor": "Agents that want a capable open model with vision on one 24 to 32 GB GPU or Mac, with the widest runtime support and a plain licence.", "strengths": [ "Released support in llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers", "Ollama's 4-bit build fits in about 22 GB", "Plain Apache 2.0 with no gate, no account and no use policy", "Safetensors only, with a checksum on every file in the publisher's own organisation", "Thinking that turns off or is budgeted per request, several tool calls a turn and 262,144 tokens of native context", "Seven inference providers host it on 1 November 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "No safety results, prompt-injection guidance or security contact", "Tool calling and structured output aren't documented by Alibaba", "No training data, limitations, languages or knowledge cut-off on the card", "No reply from Qwen to any of the 40 most recent discussions, including template reports", "Only one quantised build from Alibaba, and no change to the files since 14 August 2026" ], "agentNotes": [ "Quickest start is `ollama run qwen3.8`, about 18 GB of files", "On our reference machine use BF16 with `vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B --max-model-len 131072 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder`, since FP8 on gfx1151 isn't documented", "Use the qwen3_coder tool parser, SGLang's cookbook says the Hermes parser leaves its calls unparsed", "Thinking is on by default, pass `chat_template_kwargs` with `enable_thinking` false for short tasks, and read the reasoning from `reasoning_content`", "`reasoning_effort` takes xhigh (default), medium or low, and any other value makes the template raise an error", "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", "Preserved thinking keeps earlier reasoning in the context unless `preserve_thinking` is false, which grows long agent sessions", "Turn on YaRN only beyond 262,144 tokens, the card warns static YaRN can cost quality on short texts", "Validate JSON output yourself or use the runtime's guided decoding, since structured output isn't documented" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 68.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 70, "interface": 70, "reach": 90, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 36 }, "provenanceScore": 58, "checked": { "categories": { "capability": "2026-11-01", "interface": "2026-11-01", "reach": "2026-11-01", "risk": "2026-11-01", "upkeep": "2026-11-01" }, "last": "2026-11-01", "lastMoved": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-11-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "ollama run qwen3.8\n# or, with vLLM's recipe:\nvllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8 --max-model-len 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3 \\\n --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder\n# or, with llama.cpp and llama.cpp's own GGUF:\nllama-server -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja", "http": "curl http://localhost:11434/api/chat \\\n -d '{\"model\": \"qwen3.8\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/qwen3-8-27b" }, "sameCompany": [ "qwen3-embedding-0-6b", "qwen3-embedding-4b", "qwen3-embedding-8b", "qwen3-vl-embedding-2b", "qwen3-vl-embedding-8b", "qwen3-asr-0-6b", "qwen3-asr-1-7b", "qwen3-tts-1-7b-customvoice", "qwen-agentworld-35b-a3b", "qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507", "qwen3-4b-instruct-2507", "qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct", "qwen3-coder-next", "qwen3-omni-30b-a3b-instruct", "qwen3-vl-2b-instruct", "qwen3-vl-30b-a3b-instruct", "qwen3-vl-32b-instruct", "qwen3-vl-4b-instruct", "qwen3-vl-8b-instruct", "qwen3-5-0-8b", "qwen3-5-122b-a10b", "qwen3-5-2b", "qwen3-5-397b-a17b", "qwen3-5-4b", "qwen3-5-9b", "qwen3-6-27b", "qwen3-6-35b-a3b", "qwen3-8-flash-next" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "Alibaba (Qwen team)", "params": "27B", "context": 262144, "goodFor": "Dense vision-language model for coding and agents, text, images and video in, tool calling and adjustable reasoning effort.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "Ollama", "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "ollama qwen3.8:latest", "url": "https://ollama.com/library/qwen3.8:latest", "who": "ollama", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 18, "memoryGB": 24, "format": "ollama", "runsOn": [ "Ollama" ], "note": "Q4_K_M with a BF16 vision projector (digest aaee06c39dcf). Size as Ollama's tags page shows it, rounded to whole GB above 10 GB; the Linux build is the llama.cpp variant" }, { "name": "ggml-org Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF (Q4_K_M)", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ggml-org/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF", "who": "llama.cpp", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 20.03, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "From ggml-org, the llama.cpp project's organisation. 19.40 GB of Q4_K_M weights plus the 0.63 GB Q8_0 vision projector, from the Hub's model information on 10 November 2026. Recorded after the last grading, so Reach doesn't count it yet" }, { "name": "Qwen3.8-27B-FP8", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8", "who": "publisher", "precision": "fp8", "sizeGB": 30.9, "memoryGB": 48, "format": "safetensors" }, { "name": "ggml-org Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF (Q8_0)", "url": "https://huggingface.co/ggml-org/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF", "who": "llama.cpp", "precision": "q8_0", "sizeGB": 29.23, "memoryGB": 48, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "From ggml-org, the llama.cpp project's organisation. 28.60 GB of Q8_0 weights plus the 0.63 GB Q8_0 vision projector, from the Hub's model information on 10 November 2026. Recorded after the last grading, so Reach doesn't count it yet" }, { "name": "Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 55.6, "memoryGB": 96, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM (ROCm)", "SGLang (ROCm)" ] } ], "run": "vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8 --max-model-len 262144 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder", "runBuild": "Qwen3.8-27B-FP8", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 24 }, "family": { "lab": "Alibaba (Qwen)", "family": "Qwen3", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#qwen", "others": [ { "name": "Qwen3-0.6B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B", "params": "0.6B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-1.7B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B", "params": "1.7B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-14B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-14B", "params": "14B" }, { "name": "Qwen3-235B-A22B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B", 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RDAP names Alibaba Cloud (Singapore) Private Limited as the registrant of qwen.ai.", "Nothing is hosted, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "No changelog. 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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.", "b": "Model card 11 of 20, intended use, architecture, parameters and context are there, but limitations, languages and a knowledge cut-off aren't. Training data 0, not described. Last change 15, the files last changed on 14 August 2026, 79 days before this check, and Qwen's GitHub repository for the model holds only a README and licence, so no reference code of Alibaba's changed later. Responsiveness 0, Qwen answered none of the 40 most recent questions and reports, recounted on 1 November. Version policy 5, earlier 27B models stay in their own repositories without dated notes. File health 5, the files agree with the card but reports about the template and structured output wait without a reply." }, "scores": { "a": 92, "b": 36 } }, { "by": 15, "category": "interface", "leads": "granite-4-2-8b", "name": "Agent interface", "reasons": { "a": "Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository, with roles, tools, tool responses, the thinking switch and low effort. Tool-calling format 25, the card has tool-calling sections for vLLM and SGLang, declares tools with OpenAI's function schema and names the parser to use, qwen3_coder, which both runtimes ship in the released versions read. Trained tool calling 20, the template loops over every entry in an assistant turn's tool_calls, so it renders several calls in one turn, and the card names tool calling and agentic workflows as what it's best for. Structured output 0, the card doesn't document JSON or JSON Schema output or how to ask for it. Reasoning control 10, the card documents thinking on by default, non-thinking and low-effort modes per request through the template (enable_thinking and low_effort), with the reasoning returned apart from the answer. Context 10, 131,072 tokens natively per the card and config.json. 20 + 25 + 20 + 0 + 10 + 10 = 85.", "b": "Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository. Tool-calling format 10 of 25, the format lives only in the template and the parser name only in serving commands, Alibaba doesn't describe how tools are declared or returned. Trained tool calling 20, the template renders several calls in one turn. Structured output 0, not documented. Reasoning control 10, thinking turns off per request, reasoning_effort budgets it and the card shows the reasoning coming back in reasoning_content. Context 10, 262,144 tokens native." }, "scores": { "a": 85, "b": 70 } }, { "by": 5, "category": "reach", "leads": "granite-4-2-8b", "name": "Reach", "reasons": { "a": "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. 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{ "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-wevisone-vl-4b.json", "title": "Qwen3.8-27B vs WeVisOne-VL-4B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-wevisone-vl-4b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-zaya1-8b.json", "title": "Qwen3.8-27B vs ZAYA1-8B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/qwen3-8-27b-vs-zaya1-8b" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "key": "capability", "name": "Capability", "pending": true, "weight": 35 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "granite-4-2-8b", "granite-4-2-8b": 95, "key": "reach", "name": "Reach", "qwen3-8-27b": 90, "weight": 25 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "granite-4-2-8b": 55, "key": "risk", "name": "Risk", "qwen3-8-27b": 55, "weight": 20 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "granite-4-2-8b", "granite-4-2-8b": 85, "key": "interface", "name": "Agent interface", "qwen3-8-27b": 70, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 56, "edge": "granite-4-2-8b", "granite-4-2-8b": 92, "key": "upkeep", "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "qwen3-8-27b": 36, "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "Qwen3.8-27B scores 68.6 (B) on agent readiness against Granite 4.2 8B's 61 (C), and leads in 0 of 4 scored categories. Granite 4.2 8B leads on reach, agent interface and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "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.", "qwen3-8-27b": "A dense cousin for coding and agent work with image and video input that runs almost anywhere. Ollama's 4-bit build needs about 22 GB, and seven providers host it for agents without the hardware. The main risk is that nobody at Alibaba answers, there are no safety results or agent guidance, and the tool format is only in the template." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-8b-vs-qwen3-8-27b", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-8b-vs-qwen3-8-27b.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-8b-vs-qwen3-8-27b.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-8b-vs-qwen3-8-27b.min.md" }, "markdown": "Qwen3.8-27B scores 68.6 (B) on agent readiness against Granite 4.2 8B's 61 (C), and leads in 0 of 4 scored categories. Granite 4.2 8B leads on reach, agent interface and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\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- Qwen3.8-27B: grade B, 68.6/100, rank #11 of 160 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/qwen3-8-27b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/qwen3-8-27b.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 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- Agent interface, 85 against 70\n- Documentation and upkeep, 92 against 36\n\nWatch for: No safety results published for it\n\n### Qwen3.8-27B (B)\n\nGood for: Agents that want a capable open model with vision on one 24 to 32 GB GPU or Mac, with the widest runtime support and a plain licence.\n\nWatch for: No safety results, prompt-injection guidance or security contact\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Documentation and upkeep: Granite 4.2 8B +56\n\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- Qwen3.8-27B (36): Model card 11 of 20, intended use, architecture, parameters and context are there, but limitations, languages and a knowledge cut-off aren't. Training data 0, not described. Last change 15, the files last changed on 14 August 2026, 79 days before this check, and Qwen's GitHub repository for the model holds only a README and licence, so no reference code of Alibaba's changed later. Responsiveness 0, Qwen answered none of the 40 most recent questions and reports, recounted on 1 November. Version policy 5, earlier 27B models stay in their own repositories without dated notes. File health 5, the files agree with the card but reports about the template and structured output wait without a reply.\n\n### Agent interface: Granite 4.2 8B +15\n\n- Granite 4.2 8B (85): Chat template 20, chat_template.jinja in the repository, with roles, tools, tool responses, the thinking switch and low effort. Tool-calling format 25, the card has tool-calling sections for vLLM and SGLang, declares tools with OpenAI's function schema and names the parser to use, qwen3_coder, which both runtimes ship in the released versions read. Trained tool calling 20, the template loops over every entry in an assistant turn's tool_calls, so it renders several calls in one turn, and the card names tool calling and agentic workflows as what it's best for. Structured output 0, the card doesn't document JSON or JSON Schema output or how to ask for it. Reasoning control 10, the card documents thinking on by default, non-thinking and low-effort modes per request through the template (enable_thinking and low_effort), with the reasoning returned apart from the answer. Context 10, 131,072 tokens natively per the card and config.json. 20 + 25 + 20 + 0 + 10 + 10 = 85.\n- Qwen3.8-27B (70): Chat template 20, a Jinja file in the repository. Tool-calling format 10 of 25, the format lives only in the template and the parser name only in serving commands, Alibaba doesn't describe how tools are declared or returned. Trained tool calling 20, the template renders several calls in one turn. Structured output 0, not documented. Reasoning control 10, thinking turns off per request, reasoning_effort budgets it and the card shows the reasoning coming back in reasoning_content. Context 10, 262,144 tokens native.\n\n### Reach: Granite 4.2 8B +5\n\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- Qwen3.8-27B (90): Memory 25 of 30, Ollama's smallest 4-bit build is 18 GB, or 21.6 GB with a fifth added, which fits 24 GB. Runtimes 25, released versions of llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers all run the qwen3_5 architecture. Builds 10 of 15, Alibaba's only quantised build is FP8. Terms 15, Apache 2.0 with nothing added. Download 10, neither repository is gated. Hosted 5, seven inference providers are live for it on Hugging Face on 1 November, though Qwen Cloud's own version is still described as coming soon.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Granite 4.2 8B | Qwen3.8-27B | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 95 | 90 | Granite 4.2 8B +5 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 55 | 55 | even |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 85 | 70 | Granite 4.2 8B +15 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 92 | 36 | Granite 4.2 8B +56 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **61 · C** | **68.6 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Granite 4.2 8B | Qwen3.8-27B |\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 | Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-20 | 2026-08-14 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Granite 4.2 8B\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### Qwen3.8-27B\n\n- +4.9 on 21 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\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**Qwen3.8-27B.** A dense cousin for coding and agent work with image and video input that runs almost anywhere. Ollama's 4-bit build needs about 22 GB, and seven providers host it for agents without the hardware. The main risk is that nobody at Alibaba answers, there are no safety results or agent guidance, and the tool format is only in the template.\n\n## Before you call either\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### Qwen3.8-27B\n\n1. Quickest start is `ollama run qwen3.8`, about 18 GB of files\n2. On our reference machine use BF16 with `vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B --max-model-len 131072 --reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder`, since FP8 on gfx1151 isn't documented\n3. Use the qwen3_coder tool parser, SGLang's cookbook says the Hermes parser leaves its calls unparsed\n4. Thinking is on by default, pass `chat_template_kwargs` with `enable_thinking` false for short tasks, and read the reasoning from `reasoning_content`\n5. `reasoning_effort` takes xhigh (default), medium or low, and any other value makes the template raise an error\n6. 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\n7. Preserved thinking keeps earlier reasoning in the context unless `preserve_thinking` is false, which grows long agent sessions\n8. Turn on YaRN only beyond 262,144 tokens, the card warns static YaRN can cost quality on short texts\n9. Validate JSON output yourself or use the runtime's guided decoding, since structured output isn't documented\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Granite 4.2 8B or Qwen3.8-27B?\n\nQwen3.8-27B scores 68.6 (B) on agent readiness against Granite 4.2 8B's 61 (C), and leads in 0 of 4 scored categories. Granite 4.2 8B leads on reach, agent interface and documentation and upkeep.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-8b-vs-qwen3-8-27b.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-8b-vs-qwen3-8-27b.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"granite-4-2-8b\", \"b\": \"qwen3-8-27b\"}`. 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