https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b Dated changes, score moves with their causes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for Granite 4.2 3B. en Wed, 21 Oct 2026 21:59:57 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b#rev_3879 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b#rev_3879 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review IBM's newest commit, on 20 October 2026, replaced model.safetensors.index.json and re-signed model.sig under a title that says what it fixed. Both questions on the 3B repositories had an IBM reply within two days. Config, tokenizer, template and card agree. Granite 4.1 3B stays in its own repository, but its card, last changed on 4 May, has no note that 4.2 replaces it, and the card dates the release 25 August while the repository dates from 7 August. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 21 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b#rev_3880 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b#rev_3880 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review IBM's 4-bit MLX build is 2.07 GB and Ollama's Q4_K_M 2.2 GB, about 2.5 GB with a fifth added. IBM also publishes FP8, MXFP4 and NVFP4 builds and a GGUF repository from Q2_K to Q8_0. Apache 2.0 with nothing added, nothing gated, five runtimes. Hosting is thin, with DeepInfra the only provider mapped and watsonx.ai stopping at Granite 4.1, and no price for DeepInfra is in the dossier. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 21 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b#rev_3881 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b#rev_3881 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review IBM's card shows tools declared with OpenAI's function schema, a call returning as a tool_call block, and qwen3_coder named for vLLM and SGLang. Thinking is on by default, off with enable_thinking false, or short with low_effort true, and SGLang returns it in reasoning_content. JSON output isn't documented for 4.2. Seven independent Artificial Analysis results put tool tasks lowest, with 0.0 on Terminal-Bench 4.0, and no instruction-following result was found. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 21 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b#rev_3882 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b#rev_3882 Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review IBM signs the Granite 4.2 3B repository with sigstore, renewed on 20 October 2026, and publishes the steps to verify it. The weights are two safetensors shards. The card's recommended vLLM command loads granite_thinking_parser.py from the repository, Python that patches vLLM's parser at import, although vLLM 0.32.0 has the parser built in. No safety results are published for 4.2, and guidance stops at general cautions and Granite Guardian. IBM PSIRT is in IBM's security.txt. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 21 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/granite-4-2-3b#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing 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.