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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": "Granite 4.2 8B and ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C).", "b": { "slug": "thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b", "name": "ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)", "vendor": "BottleCap AI", "vendorUrl": "https://bottlecapai.com", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B is BottleCap AI's fine-tune of Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B that shortens its reasoning traces, a 27B dense vision-language model on Hugging Face under PolyForm Small Business 1.0.0, with a gated main repository.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json", "dns": "thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B", "license": "PolyForm-Small-Business-1.0.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-FP8" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4A4-AWQ" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-4bit-DWQ" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF-RCO-4.2bpw" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The BF16 and FP8 repositories are gated (gated auto). A Hugging Face account must accept the card's conditions and give a name, a company and an email before the files open, with automatic approval. The GGUF, NVFP4, NVFP4A4-AWQ, MLX and RCO GGUF repositories were not gated on 21 October 2026, though their cards carry the same request form in their metadata (checked 2026-10-21).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free for personal non-commercial use and for companies with fewer than 100 people and under 1,000,000 USD (2019, inflation-adjusted) revenue, under PolyForm Small Business 1.0.0 plus BottleCap's personal-use grant. Larger organisations need a separate commercial licence from BottleCap AI. Running it costs the hardware, 55.6 GB for BF16 and 15.5 GB for the smallest 4-bit GGUF (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": "2026-11-03" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "dense", "multimodal", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "derivative", "gated", "source-available", "safetensors", "gguf", "fp8", "nvfp4", "mlx", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-06", "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": 48, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "interface": 70, "reach": 75, "risk": 45, "upkeep": 53 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-11-03" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A Qwen3.8-27B with shorter reasoning, for agent work where thinking tokens cost time, and BottleCap's 4-bit GGUF runs in about 19 GB. The main limits are the licence, which needs a paid licence above 100 people or 1,000,000 USD revenue, a gated main repository, and no safety results or training-data description.", "bestFor": "Small teams and individuals running Qwen3.8-27B for agent or reasoning work who want shorter thinking traces on one 24 GB GPU or Mac.", "strengths": [ "Same architecture and template as Qwen3.8-27B, so released vLLM, SGLang, Transformers and llama.cpp run it", "BottleCap publishes FP8, NVFP4, MLX and GGUF builds, the IQ4_XS needing about 19 GB", "Per-request reasoning effort, several tool calls a turn and 262,144 tokens of context", "The card documents its own evaluation method with seeds, intervals and paired quantisation checks", "Safetensors only, in a verified organisation" ], "weaknesses": [ "PolyForm Small Business licence, free commercially only below 100 people and 1,000,000 USD (2019) revenue", "The BF16 and FP8 repositories are gated behind contact details", "No safety results, agent guidance, security contact or training-data description", "No hosted API or inference provider", "Every accuracy and token-saving figure comes from BottleCap's own harness" ], "agentNotes": [ "Check the licence first, an organisation with 100 or more people or 1,000,000 USD (2019) revenue needs a commercial licence from BottleCap", "For files without the gate use `llama-server -hf bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja`, about 17.4 GB", "On vLLM use `--reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_xml`, and on SGLang `--tool-call-parser qwen3_coder`", "Set `reasoning_effort` (xhigh, medium or low) in chat_template_kwargs, any other value makes the template raise an error", "Keep the base's sampling (temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95, top_k 20), the GGUF card says greedy decoding can loop", "The GGUFs carry an MTP head, and llama.cpp builds without MTP support for this architecture may refuse to load them with a missing blk.64 tensor" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 61 } ], "editorialScores": { "interface": 70, "reach": 75, "risk": 45, "upkeep": 53 }, "provenanceScore": 49, "checked": { "categories": { "interface": "2026-11-03", "reach": "2026-11-03", "risk": "2026-11-03", "upkeep": "2026-11-03" }, "last": "2026-11-03", "oldest": "2026-11-03", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "llama-server -hf bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja\n# or the gated BF16 weights, after accepting the card's conditions:\nvllm serve bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B --reasoning-parser qwen3 \\\n --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_xml", "http": "curl http://localhost:8080/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n -d '{\"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b" }, "weights": { "trainedBy": "BottleCap AI", "builtOn": "Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B (Apache 2.0), declared in the card's metadata (base_model, base_model_relation finetune) and in NOTICE as the base checkpoint. ThinkingCap's own weights are under PolyForm Small Business 1.0.0 with a personal-use grant, and NOTICE keeps Apache 2.0 for the upstream Qwen materials", "params": "27B", "context": 262144, "goodFor": "Qwen3.8-27B with shorter reasoning traces, for agent and reasoning work where thinking tokens cost time, with images and video in.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-IQ4_XS", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF/blob/main/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-IQ4_XS.gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "iq4_xs", "sizeGB": 15.5, "memoryGB": 24, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp (Vulkan)", "llama.cpp (ROCm)" ], "note": "Not gated. Image input needs the 0.93 GB mmproj file from the same repository" }, { "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-Q4_K_M", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF/blob/main/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-Q4_K_M.gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 17.4, "memoryGB": 24, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp (Vulkan)", "llama.cpp (ROCm)" ] }, { "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-RCO-4.2bpw", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF-RCO-4.2bpw", "who": "publisher", "precision": "mixed-4.2bpw", "sizeGB": 14.3, "memoryGB": 24, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp (Vulkan)", "llama.cpp (ROCm)" ], "note": "Not gated. Mixed precision averaging 4.19 bits per weight, with the feed-forward weights at 3.8 to 3.9 bits, so it doesn't count as a 4-bit build for the memory line" }, { "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4", "who": "publisher", "precision": "nvfp4", "sizeGB": 20.6, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "safetensors", "note": "Not gated. Weight-only NVFP4 for vLLM on Hopper (Marlin) and Blackwell" }, { "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4A4-AWQ", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4A4-AWQ", "who": "publisher", "precision": "nvfp4", "sizeGB": 23.4, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "safetensors", "note": "Not gated. NVFP4 weights and activations, Blackwell only" }, { "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-4bit-DWQ", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-4bit-DWQ", "who": "publisher", "precision": "mlx-4bit", "sizeGB": 22.8, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "mlx", "runsOn": [ "mlx-vlm" ], "note": "Not gated. Mixed 4 and 8-bit DWQ with the vision tower and MTP head (22.0 GB without the MTP files). The card says to use mlx-vlm or oMLX" }, { "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-Q6_K", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF/blob/main/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-Q6_K.gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q6_k", "sizeGB": 23.9, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp (Vulkan)", "llama.cpp (ROCm)" ] }, { "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-FP8", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-FP8", "who": "publisher", "precision": "fp8", "sizeGB": 31.2, "memoryGB": 48, "format": "safetensors", "note": "Gated like the main repository. Block-wise FP8 for vLLM on Hopper and Blackwell, per the card" }, { "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-Q8_0", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF/blob/main/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-Q8_0.gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q8_0", "sizeGB": 29, "memoryGB": 48, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp (Vulkan)", "llama.cpp (ROCm)" ] }, { "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 55.6, "memoryGB": 96, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM (ROCm)", "SGLang (ROCm)", "Transformers" ], "note": "Gated (auto approval after accepting the card's conditions)" }, { "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-f16", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF/blob/main/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-f16.gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "f16", "sizeGB": 54.7, "memoryGB": 96, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp (Vulkan)", "llama.cpp (ROCm)" ] } ], "run": "llama-server -hf bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja", "runBuild": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-Q4_K_M", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 24 }, "family": { "lab": "BottleCap AI (bottlecapai)", "family": "ThinkingCap", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#bottlecap", "others": [ { "name": "ThinkingCap-Qwen3.6-27B", "url": "https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.6-27B", "params": "27B (27,356,728,560 by the Hub's safetensors count)" } ], "unrestrictedCopies": 5 }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "BottleCap AI (named in the licence's copyright line)", "domain": "bottlecapai.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://bottlecapai.com/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-03", "notes": [ "The Hugging Face organisation bottlecapai is verified (team plan, 14 members on 3 November 2026). BottleCap's blog post for this model links the repository.", "Nothing is hosted, so the licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "bottlecapai.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404 (re-read 3 November 2026). A trust centre at trust.mycroft.io/bottlecap-ai lists SOC 2 and policies behind a request form, with no route for reporting a flaw in the model.", "unchecked: the domain's registration date, and the main repository's commit history, which is behind the gate." ], "score": 49 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json", "live": { "slug": "thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://bottlecapai.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-10T16:08:23.314260227Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "bottlecapai.com", "registered": "2025-02-06", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/bottlecapai.com", "checkedAt": "2026-11-08T14:51:11.863400113Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://bottlecapai.com/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-10T16:10:53.84275598Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-31T06:05:10.398956441Z", "fingerprint": "780a269ec4e7" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-11-10T16:10:53.84275598Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 39, "category": "upkeep", "leads": "granite-4-2-8b", "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "reasons": { "a": "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.", "b": "Model card 8 of 20, intended use, limitations and parameters are there, but architecture, context, languages and a cut-off aren't. Training data 0, not described. Last change 20, BottleCap's GGUF build of the model changed its card on 7 October 2026, 27 days ago. Responsiveness 10, BottleCap answered 4 of 8 discussions on the main repository. Version policy 5, the earlier ThinkingCap stays in its own repository with an undated pointer to this one. File health 10, the readable metadata and builds agree and no broken-file report waits." }, "scores": { "a": 92, "b": 53 } }, { "by": 20, "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. 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.", "b": "Memory 25 of 30, BottleCap's IQ4_XS GGUF is 15.5 GB, 18.6 GB with a fifth added, which fits 24 GB. Runtimes 20, it keeps the base's qwen3_5 architecture, which llama.cpp, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers run in released versions, while Ollama's entry is the base's. Builds 15, FP8, NVFP4, MLX and GGUF from BottleCap. Terms 10, PolyForm Small Business is free commercially only below 100 people and 1,000,000 USD (2019) revenue. Download 5, the main repository is gated behind a click-through with an account and contact details, though the GGUF, NVFP4 and MLX builds aren't. Hosted 0, no API or inference provider serves it." }, "scores": { "a": 95, "b": 75 } }, { "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, the same Jinja template as Qwen3.8-27B, in the repository. Tool-calling format 10 of 25, the card names the parsers but the format lives only in the template. Trained tool calling 20, several calls a turn, and BottleCap evaluated agent tasks. Structured output 0, not documented. Reasoning control 10, reasoning_effort budgets thinking per request and the card says where the reasoning comes back. Context 10, 262,144 tokens." }, "scores": { "a": 85, "b": 70 } }, { "by": 10, "category": "risk", "leads": "granite-4-2-8b", "name": "Risk", "reasons": { "a": "File safety 15, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files (25). Provenance 15, the files sit in the ibm-granite organisation, which IBM's Granite docs and the GitHub README link to (10). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results on the card. Agent guidance 5, General cautions. Licence risk 15, Apache 2.0 has no use policy, field-of-use limit, threshold or change clause, and the card's licence link resolves. Security programme 5, www.ibm.com/.well-known/security.txt names IBM PSIRT, read for the 3B listing on 4 November 2026 (5). 15 + 15 + 0 + 5 + 15 + 5 = 55.", "b": "File safety 25, safetensors only and no code in the repository. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b-vs-wevisone-vl-4b.json", "title": "ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) vs WeVisOne-VL-4B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b-vs-wevisone-vl-4b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b-vs-zaya1-8b.json", "title": "ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) vs ZAYA1-8B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b-vs-zaya1-8b" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "key": "capability", "name": "Capability", "pending": true, "weight": 35 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "granite-4-2-8b", "granite-4-2-8b": 95, "key": "reach", "name": "Reach", "thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b": 75, "weight": 25 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "granite-4-2-8b", "granite-4-2-8b": 55, "key": "risk", "name": "Risk", "thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b": 45, "weight": 20 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "granite-4-2-8b", "granite-4-2-8b": 85, "key": "interface", "name": "Agent interface", "thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b": 70, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 39, "edge": "granite-4-2-8b", "granite-4-2-8b": 92, "key": "upkeep", "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b": 53, "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "Granite 4.2 8B and ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). 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.", "thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b": "A Qwen3.8-27B with shorter reasoning, for agent work where thinking tokens cost time, and BottleCap's 4-bit GGUF runs in about 19 GB. The main limits are the licence, which needs a paid licence above 100 people or 1,000,000 USD revenue, a gated main repository, and no safety results or training-data description." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-8b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-8b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-8b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-8b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.min.md" }, "markdown": "Granite 4.2 8B and ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C). 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- ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B): grade C, 61/100, rank #58 of 160 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/thinkingcap-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 75\n- Risk, 55 against 45\n- Agent interface, 85 against 70\n- Documentation and upkeep, 92 against 53\n\nWatch for: No safety results published for it\n\n### ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) (C)\n\nGood for: Small teams and individuals running Qwen3.8-27B for agent or reasoning work who want shorter thinking traces on one 24 GB GPU or Mac.\n\nWatch for: PolyForm Small Business licence, free commercially only below 100 people and 1,000,000 USD (2019) revenue\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Documentation and upkeep: Granite 4.2 8B +39\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- ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) (53): Model card 8 of 20, intended use, limitations and parameters are there, but architecture, context, languages and a cut-off aren't. Training data 0, not described. Last change 20, BottleCap's GGUF build of the model changed its card on 7 October 2026, 27 days ago. Responsiveness 10, BottleCap answered 4 of 8 discussions on the main repository. Version policy 5, the earlier ThinkingCap stays in its own repository with an undated pointer to this one. File health 10, the readable metadata and builds agree and no broken-file report waits.\n\n### Reach: Granite 4.2 8B +20\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- ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) (75): Memory 25 of 30, BottleCap's IQ4_XS GGUF is 15.5 GB, 18.6 GB with a fifth added, which fits 24 GB. Runtimes 20, it keeps the base's qwen3_5 architecture, which llama.cpp, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers run in released versions, while Ollama's entry is the base's. Builds 15, FP8, NVFP4, MLX and GGUF from BottleCap. Terms 10, PolyForm Small Business is free commercially only below 100 people and 1,000,000 USD (2019) revenue. Download 5, the main repository is gated behind a click-through with an account and contact details, though the GGUF, NVFP4 and MLX builds aren't. Hosted 0, no API or inference provider serves it.\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- ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) (70): Chat template 20, the same Jinja template as Qwen3.8-27B, in the repository. Tool-calling format 10 of 25, the card names the parsers but the format lives only in the template. Trained tool calling 20, several calls a turn, and BottleCap evaluated agent tasks. Structured output 0, not documented. Reasoning control 10, reasoning_effort budgets thinking per request and the card says where the reasoning comes back. Context 10, 262,144 tokens.\n\n### Risk: Granite 4.2 8B +10\n\n- Granite 4.2 8B (55): File safety 15, safetensors only, no .bin, .pt or .pth files (25). Provenance 15, the files sit in the ibm-granite organisation, which IBM's Granite docs and the GitHub README link to (10). Safety evaluation 0, no safety results on the card. Agent guidance 5, General cautions. Licence risk 15, Apache 2.0 has no use policy, field-of-use limit, threshold or change clause, and the card's licence link resolves. Security programme 5, www.ibm.com/.well-known/security.txt names IBM PSIRT, read for the 3B listing on 4 November 2026 (5). 15 + 15 + 0 + 5 + 15 + 5 = 55.\n- ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) (45): File safety 25, safetensors only and no code in the repository. Provenance 10 of 15, the files are in BottleCap's verified organisation, but the Hub hides the gated files' SHA-256 from the public, so checksums couldn't be confirmed. Safety evaluation 0, none published. Agent guidance 0. Licence risk 10, 5 off for the size and revenue threshold. Security programme 0, no security.txt, disclosure policy or security contact.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Granite 4.2 8B | ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 95 | 75 | Granite 4.2 8B +20 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 55 | 45 | Granite 4.2 8B +10 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 85 | 70 | Granite 4.2 8B +15 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 92 | 53 | Granite 4.2 8B +39 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **61 · C** | **61 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Granite 4.2 8B | ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | IBM | BottleCap AI |\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 | PolyForm-Small-Business-1.0.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-20 | 2026-10-06 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-01-21 |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (4) |\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**ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B).** A Qwen3.8-27B with shorter reasoning, for agent work where thinking tokens cost time, and BottleCap's 4-bit GGUF runs in about 19 GB. The main limits are the licence, which needs a paid licence above 100 people or 1,000,000 USD revenue, a gated main repository, and no safety results or training-data description.\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### ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)\n\n1. Check the licence first, an organisation with 100 or more people or 1,000,000 USD (2019) revenue needs a commercial licence from BottleCap\n2. For files without the gate use `llama-server -hf bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja`, about 17.4 GB\n3. On vLLM use `--reasoning-parser qwen3 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser qwen3_xml`, and on SGLang `--tool-call-parser qwen3_coder`\n4. Set `reasoning_effort` (xhigh, medium or low) in chat_template_kwargs, any other value makes the template raise an error\n5. Keep the base's sampling (temperature 1.0, top_p 0.95, top_k 20), the GGUF card says greedy decoding can loop\n6. The GGUFs carry an MTP head, and llama.cpp builds without MTP support for this architecture may refuse to load them with a missing blk.64 tensor\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Granite 4.2 8B or ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)?\n\nGranite 4.2 8B and ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B) score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61 (C) and 61 (C).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-8b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/granite-4-2-8b-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"granite-4-2-8b\", \"b\": \"thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b\"}`. 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