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Granite 4.2 8B

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International Business Machines Corporation · ibm.com since 1986 · who's behind it

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.

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Assessment. 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.

Facts

Access how an agent reaches and pays for it
Auth
None
Pricing
Free
x402
No
Licence
Apache-2.0
Capabilities
model.open-weights
Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases
Packages
huggingface ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b
huggingface ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-GGUF
huggingface ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-fp8
huggingface ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-mxfp4
huggingface ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-nvfp4
huggingface ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-q4-mlx
ollama granite4.2:8b
llms.txt
not found
Last release
From our research 10 facts checked against the vendor's pages
Surface graded
The open weights at huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b with IBM's FP8, MXFP4, NVFP4, GGUF and MLX builds, read from the model card, the files and their metadata, the chat template, IBM's disclosure file for this size, Ollama's library and the runtimes' own code at their latest releases on 10 November 2026. IBM's docs, blog, licence and security.txt were read for the 3B listing on 21 October and 4 November. Nothing was downloaded or run
Model
A dense decoder-only transformer (GraniteForCausalLM), 40 layers, hidden size 4,096, 32 attention heads with 8 KV heads, SwiGLU (12,800), RoPE with theta 10,000,000 and separate input and output embeddings. 8,791,592,960 parameters per the Hub; the card says 8B. Post-trained from IBM's own granite-4.1-8b-base
Languages
English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Arabic, Czech, Italian, Korean, Dutch and Chinese tested, per the card
Context
131,072 tokens per the card (natively 128K) and config.json (max_position_embeddings 131072). The card also names a long-context extension to 512K, without saying how to turn it on
Tools and reasoning
Tools are declared with OpenAI's function schema and listed in a system turn inside <tools>. Calls come back as <tool_call><function=name><parameter=key>value</parameter></function></tool_call>, several per turn, and the card names the qwen3_coder parser for vLLM and SGLang. Thinking is on by default inside <think>, enable_thinking false turns it off and low_effort true shortens it, and SGLang returns it in reasoning_content
Files
Four safetensors shards, 17.58 GB in BF16, a chat_template.jinja, granite_thinking_parser.py (a vLLM reasoning-parser plugin) and model.sig, a sigstore signature. No pickle files. Hugging Face lists a SHA-256 for every shard
Licence
Apache 2.0, per the card, the metadata and the GitHub repository's LICENSE. No LICENSE file in the Hugging Face repository. The base, granite-4.1-8b-base, is IBM's own under Apache 2.0
Runtimes
Transformers (granite), vLLM (GraniteForCausalLM in the 0.33.0 registry), SGLang (granite.py at 0.5.23), llama.cpp (granite, with IBM's GGUF) and Ollama's library (granite4.2:8b). LM Studio's organisation on the Hub also publishes a GGUF of it
Hardware
No memory figure on the card. The BF16 files are 17.6 GB, IBM's FP8 build 9.6 GB, its MXFP4 and NVFP4 builds 5.9 and 6.1 GB, its Q4_K_M GGUF 5.3 GB and its 4-bit MLX build 5.0 GB
Training data
IBM's disclosure file for this size lists the datasets used in pre-training and post-training with their metadata, released as a governance record on 3 September 2026. The card describes the three training stages, pre-training, supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning

Facts verified 10 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown

Strengths

  • Runs in llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, SGLang and Transformers from IBM's own FP8, FP4, GGUF and MLX builds
  • Plain Apache 2.0, ungated, signed with sigstore
  • The card documents the tool-calling format, the parser to use and three thinking modes
  • IBM publishes a machine-readable disclosure of the training datasets
  • IBM answers most questions on the repository

Weaknesses

  • No safety results published for it
  • Structured output isn't documented
  • The card's vLLM command still loads a Python plugin from the repository, which released vLLM no longer needs
  • No knowledge cut-off on the card
  • One inference provider, so an agent without the hardware has little choice

Before you call it notes for agents

  1. Start it with ollama run granite4.2:8b, or llama-server -hf ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja
  2. With vLLM 0.32.0 or later leave out --reasoning-parser-plugin, since the parser is built in, and use --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder
  3. Thinking is on by default. Pass enable_thinking false to turn it off or low_effort true for short reasoning
  4. The context is 131,072 tokens. The card's 512K extension isn't documented
  5. Validate JSON output yourself, since structured output isn't documented
  6. IBM recommends Granite Guardian beside it to flag risky inputs and outputs

Who's behind it provenance 88/100

  • Legal entity namedInternational Business Machines Corporation (per IBM's naming guidance, as read for granite-guardian)20/20
  • Domain ageibm.com, registered 1986-03-19 (40 years)15/15
  • Endpoint on the vendor's domainno hosted endpointn/a
  • Terms of servicenothing hosted, so the Apache-2.0 licence stands in10/10
  • Privacy policynothing hosted, not scoredn/a
  • Status pagenot found0/10
  • Changelogpublished10/10
  • security.txtvalid10/10
  • People named5 named with their role, none with a public profile7/10
  • Support routehelp pages, a community5/5

Terms and privacy, as read

Terms of service none to read

TL;DR Nothing is hosted by the vendor, so there are no terms of service to read. The Apache-2.0 licence stands in and the check scores in full.

Privacy policy none to read

TL;DR Nothing is hosted by the vendor, so there is no privacy policy to read and the check isn't scored.

A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. It isn't legal advice, a rule can miss a clause or misread one, and the document itself is what binds. How it's read and scored.

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.

Checked 2026-11-10 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.

Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help

Key people

IBM on LinkedIn @ibm GitHub

Ownership Public company (NYSE: IBM)

Researched 10 November 2026 from public pages. IBM is a listed company whose founders, per Wikipedia, are those of its 1911 predecessor, the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. IBM's senior leadership page, read on 28 October 2026, names Arvind Krishna as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer and Jay Gambetta as Director of IBM Research, the lab that announces and publishes the Granite models (https://research.ibm.com/blog/introducing-granite-4-2). IBM names no chief technology officer there, and the Granite pages name no single product lead. The paper authors on two listings (Parul Awasthy on granite-embedding-small-english-r2, Inkit Padhi on granite-guardian) stay as they are. Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.

Sources (8)

Notable

  • 58,665 downloads in the last 30 days and 117 likes on Hugging Face on 10 November 2026, and 282,531 for IBM's GGUF repository source
  • The card gives 58.06 on τ³-bench (average), 52.39 on BFCL v4 and 86.67 on AIME25 for this size, against 45.78 on τ³-bench for the 3B. These are IBM's numbers, not our measurement source
  • IBM publishes a machine-readable disclosure of the training datasets for this size, dated 3 September 2026, with a release date of 25 August 2026 source
  • The repository carries model.sig, a sigstore signature over the files source
  • The card still says to load the repository's granite_thinking_parser.py as a vLLM plugin, while released vLLM and SGLang register a granite_thinking_parser of their own source
  • DeepInfra serves it, the one inference provider Hugging Face maps source

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Reviews by the Anchor panel

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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run

Assessed on 10 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence low. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.

CategoryWeight this runScorePoints
Capabilitynot scored in this run 35%pending pending n/a
Reachchecked 10 November 2026 25%38.5 36.5
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.
Riskchecked 10 November 2026 20%30.8 16.9
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.
Agent interfacechecked 10 November 2026 10%15.4 13.1
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.
Documentation and upkeepchecked 10 November 2026 10%15.4 14.2
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.
Negative events≤15None recorded0
Total61 · C

Weight is the published weight, and the figure under it is that category's share of the 100 points in this run. A pending category has no score and adds nothing. What changes when it's scored.

Score history no moves since it was graded

Every time a number on this listing moved, and what moved it: a change of terms or pricing, an outage, the vendor's own release, new evidence, or our own correction. A score can't change without an entry here. Every listing's changes · JSON · RSS

  1. Graded 61 C methodology v0.7

Fix list 11 items, the biggest gain first

Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on Granite 4.2 8B. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.

What we couldn't check

  • Hosted is 0 with one provider mapped on Hugging Face. OpenRouter listed granite-4.2-8b on 4 November per the 3B listing, which may count as a second for the 8B
  • File health is 10 although the newest discussion, five days old, has no reply from IBM. If that discussion reports a broken file, the line is 5
  • Capability is pending because no independent results were looked up for this size on the day. The 3B has a Capability score, so results for the family exist
  • The disclosure file's dataset entries weren't counted for this size, as they were for the 3B
  • unchecked on 10 November: IBM's docs page, blog, GitHub README and security.txt, read for the 3B listing on 21 October and 4 November, and the Granite 4.1 8B card for a dated note

Sources 19

  1. model card huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
  2. gating, dates, parameter count, downloads, likes, file list and hashes huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
  3. inference providers, DeepInfra huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
  4. commit history huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
  5. architecture and context length huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
  6. chat template huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
  7. the vLLM parser plugin in the repository huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
  8. discussions, replies counted by script from authors, dates and member flags huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
  9. IBM's builds for Granite 4.2 and their sizes huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
  10. IBM's GGUF files and sizes huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
  11. IBM's 4-bit MLX build huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
  12. IBM's disclosure file for this size raw.githubusercontent.com · seen 2026-11-10
  13. Ollama's library tags for granite4.2 ollama.com · seen 2026-11-10
  14. LM Studio's GGUF of it on the Hub huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-10
  15. vLLM v0.33.0 registry, GraniteForCausalLM raw.githubusercontent.com · seen 2026-11-10
  16. SGLang v0.5.23 granite.py raw.githubusercontent.com · seen 2026-11-10
  17. llama.cpp b12242, the Granite conversion code (shallow clone) raw.githubusercontent.com · seen 2026-11-10
  18. IBM's Granite 4.2 docs page, read for the 3B listing ibm.com · seen 2026-11-10
  19. IBM's security.txt, read for the 3B listing ibm.com · seen 2026-11-10

Probe metrics

Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. The pollers record uptime for hosted endpoints as they run, and that doesn't change the score either.

Pricing & changes

Free Free 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).

What a task costs hosted estimated, per task

Hosted asResearch reportSmall websiteBug fix
ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8bOpenRouter, $0.06 in and $0.25 out per 1M tokens$0.18$0.05$0.01

Each figure is the same tokens priced at this model's rates, research report (134 fresh input, 207k cache writes, 10.5M cache reads and 46k output, the median of 156 runs), small website (48 fresh input, 106k cache writes, 2.2M cache reads and 40k output, the median of 4 runs) and bug fix (16 fresh input, 57k cache writes, 472k cache reads and 2k output, the median of 4 runs). We measured the tokens with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code, so another model may use more or fewer tokens for the same job, and these compare prices, not how well or how efficiently each model works. Long-context surcharges, batch discounts and free allowances aren't counted. Prices are OpenRouter's for each model it serves from these weights. Run them yourself and the cost is your hardware and power. How we measured them.

Recent changes

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Get started

Install

ollama run granite4.2:8b
# or, with llama.cpp and IBM's own GGUF:
llama-server -hf ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja
# or, with vLLM 0.32.0 or later:
vllm serve ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b --max-model-len 131072 \
  --reasoning-parser granite_thinking_parser \
  --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder --enable-auto-tool-choice

First request

curl http://localhost:11434/api/chat \
  -d '{"model": "granite4.2:8b", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]}'

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Qwen3-Embedding-8B Alibaba (Qwen team)BB75.4model.open-weightsno
Gemma 4 31B IT Google DeepMindBB74.1model.open-weightsno
Qwen3-Embedding-4B Alibaba (Qwen team)BB73.6model.open-weightsno
Gemma 4 12B IT Google DeepMindBB72.3model.open-weightsno
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT Google DeepMindBB72.2model.open-weightsno
gpt-oss-120b OpenAIBB70.2model.open-weightsno

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